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
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...filiis natura consociat, interscindunt aut certe quidem diluunt deteruntque? Nam ubi infantis aliorsum dati facta ex oculis amolitiost..."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..."
