diluunt
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;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- A
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...filiis natura consociat, interscindunt aut certe quidem diluunt deteruntque? Nam ubi infantis aliorsum dati facta ex oculis amolitiost..." - L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...hibernis minora sunt: quippe uernis temporibus imbres niuem diluunt, reliquias eius primus calor dissipat. [2,20] Nec Rhenus..."