dilui
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. perf. act. ind. 1stpres. pass. infin.
Examples
- A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...nihil patri parendum, inperfecta est refutarique ac dilui sic potest:15 Omnia, quae in rebus humanis fiunt..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...rescinduntur. Idque sane frequentissime faciendum est: aliter enim dilui obiecta non possunt, utique cum quaestio in eo consistit..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...sumus oportet. cur ergo non exponamus quod et dilui potest et, ut hoc contingat, utique indicandum est? LXXIX..." - G
Liber II
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...erat commune crimen ab utroque defendi, et si dilui non potuisset in utroque puniri. Dilata..."
