diluitur
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. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Lucili, non existimo magno viro faciendum: diluitur eius auctoritas nec habet apud eos satis ponderis quos posset minus..."Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...agitatur; Tyros et ipsa tam mouetur quam diluitur. Hae fere causae redduntur propter quas tremat terra..."