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
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..."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..."Liber XXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...indicta causa credatis: ueniat, coram ipse audiat, ipse diluat. si quicquam sceleris quod homo in homines edere potest..."