exsolvo

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ex + solvō.

Pronunciation

Verb

exsolvō (present infinitive exsolvere, perfect active exsolvī, supine exsolūtum); third conjugation

  1. to unloose, release, free
  2. to unbind, untie, undo
  3. (figurative) to renounce, abandon, relinquish, leave behind

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Italian: sciogliere
  • Sicilian: sciògghiri
  • Portuguese: exsolver
  • English: exolve, exsolve

References

  • exsolvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • exsolvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • exsolvo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to pay one's debts: aes alienum dissolvere, exsolvere
    • to pay one's debts: nomina (cf. sect. XIII. 3) solvere, dissolvere, exsolvere