diluentis
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;
gen. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...famem et aestiuae expeditionis sitim qui puero male diluenti niuem irascitur? Nulla itaque res magis iracundiam alit quam..."XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...passi sint, exciderit, ut has ferant cavillationes non diluentis crimen, sed differentis, populus quoque inpunitum nefas sine lapidibus..."Liber IV
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...Praeterea rem manifestam infitiari augentis erat crimen non diluentis, praesertim cum reus ipse nihil integrum advocatis reliquisset. Multis..."