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
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...nihil patri parendum, inperfecta est refutarique ac dilui sic potest:15 Omnia, quae in rebus humanis fiunt..."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..."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..."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..."
