diluat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →diluo, diluere, dilui, dilutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wash (away/off); dissolve and carry away; purge/clear/empty (bowels); drench;; bathe/wet/moisten; temper/dilute/dissolve/weaken/thin out (w/water); dissipate;; rebut/refute, explain away, make clear, explain, clear up (charge); diminish;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...genere est agenti dispiciendum quid quoque loco diluat. Quod pertinet ad actorem, non plane dissentio a Celso..." - P
Amores II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...lacrimas carnificemque vocet. tu contra obiciens, quae tuto diluat illa, et veris falso crimine deme fidem. sic tibi..." - T
Liber XXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...indicta causa credatis: ueniat, coram ipse audiat, ipse diluat. si quicquam sceleris quod homo in homines edere potest..."