solvent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →solvo, solvere, solvi, solutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
loosen, release, unbind, untie, free; open; set sail; scatter; pay off/back;
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...omnis inter permixtas rerum caelique ruinas corpora solventes abeat per inane profundum, temporis ut puncto nihil extet reliquiarum..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...exitus est melior quam in finem suum natura solvente dilabi? non quia aliquid mali ictus et e vita..."Ecloga IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...manent sceleris vestigia nostri, inrita perpetua solvent formidine terras. ille deum vitam accipiet divisque videbit permixtos heroas..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...fatebuntur gnatorum in funere matres, cum incultum cano solvent a vertice crinem, putridaque infirmis variabunt pectora palmis. currite..."Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...fores lapsasque lacertis sponte sua fama est nullo solvente catenas. Perstat Echionides, nec iam iubet ire, sed ipse..."Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...sescentos moratorum in citeriore ripa Padi segniter ratem solventes cepit. Transire pontem non potuit, ut extrema resoluta erant..."