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Etymology
From solvi + -o.
Pronunciation
Noun
solvo (accusative singular solvon, plural solvoj, accusative plural solvojn)
- solution
Italian
Verb
solvo
- first-person singular present indicative of solvere
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From se- (“away”) + luō (“to untie, set free, separate”).
Pronunciation
Verb
solvō (present infinitive solvere, perfect active solvī, supine solūtum); third conjugation
- to loosen, untie, undo; free , release, acquit, exempt
- Synonyms: rumpo, persolvo, absolvo, explicō, distraho, dissolvo
- Antonyms: ligō, colligō, illigō, cōnserō, cōnfīgō, adalligō, alligō, dēligō, nectō, cōnectō, dēfīgō, fīgō
- to solve, explain
- to dissolve, break up, separate
similia similibus solvuntur- Like dissolves like.
- to relax, slacken, weaken
23 BCE – 13 BCE,
Horace,
Odes 2.2.4–7:
- Vīvet extentō Proculeius aevō,
nōtus in frātrēs animī paternī;
illum aget pennā metuente solvī
Fāma superstes.- Proculeius shall live an extended age,
well known for his fatherly spirit to his brothers;
him will bear with feather scorning to be relaxed
enduring Fame.
- to cancel, remove, destroy
- Synonym: cancellō
- to pay up, fulfil
- Synonyms: ērogō, pendo, persolvo, luo, absolvo, dissolvo
- to undermine
- (figuratively) (emotion, feelings) to get rid of, let go of, release, dismiss, loosen
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.562:
- “Solvite corde metum, Teucrī, sēclūdite cūrās.”
- “Release the fear within your heart, Teucrians, banish worries.”
(Dido tells the Trojan envoys to “unbind” the inner physical tension which follows intense emotion.)
- to let down (hair)
- to open (a letter)
- to unfurl
- to raise (a siege)
- to dismiss (troops)
- to set sail (ships)
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References
- “solvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “solvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- solvo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to awake: somno solvi
- to perform the last rites for a person: iusta facere, solvere alicui
- to decide, determine a question: quaestionem solvere
- to open a letter: epistulam solvere, aperire, resignare (of Romans also linum incīdere)
- to accomplish, pay a vow: vota solvere, persolvere, reddere
- to pay money: pecuniam solvere
- to repay a loan: pecuniam creditam solvere
- to pay one's debts: nomina (cf. sect. XIII. 3) solvere, dissolvere, exsolvere
- to pay one's old debts by making new: versurā solvere, dissolvere (Att. 5. 15. 2)
- to free from legal obligations: legibus solvere
- to suffer punishment: poenas dependere, expendere, solvere, persolvere
- to weigh anchor, sail: solvere (B. G. 4. 28)
- to weigh anchor, sail: navem (naves) solvere
- the ships sail from the harbour: naves ex portu solvunt
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN