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dissolvo
dissolvo
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /disˈsol.woː/, [dɪsˈsɔɫ.woː]
Verb
dissolvō (present infinitive dissolvere, perfect active dissolvī, supine dissolutum); third conjugation
- I unloose, disunite, separate, dissolve or destroy
- I pay or discharge (a debt etc.)
- I abolish, abrogate or annul
- I refute
Inflection
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References
- dissolvo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dissolvo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dissolvo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to renounce, give up a friendship: amicitiam dissuere, dissolvere, praecīdere
- to close one's bank, give up banking: argentariam dissolvere (Caecin. 4. 11)
- to pay one's debts: aes alienum dissolvere, exsolvere
- 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 break down a bridge: pontem dissolvere, rescindere, interscindere (B. G. 2. 9. 4)
- to declare a magistrate's decisions null and void: acta rescindere, dissolvere (Phil. 13. 3. 5)
- to refute charges: crimina diluere, dissolvere
- to renounce, give up a friendship: amicitiam dissuere, dissolvere, praecīdere