# solvo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From solvi +‎ -o.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsolvo/
* Rhymes: -olvo

### Noun

solvo (accusative singular solvon, plural solvoj, accusative plural solvojn)
* solution

## Italian
### Verb

solvo
* first-person singular present indicative of solvere

### Anagrams

* svolo, svolò

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* soluō

### Etymology

From se- (“away”) +‎ luō (“to untie, set free, separate”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsol.u̯oː/, [ˈs̠ɔɫ̪u̯oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsol.vo/, [ˈsɔlvo]

### Verb

solvō (present infinitive solvere, perfect active solvī, supine solūtum); third conjugation
* to loosen, untie, undo; free [up], release, acquit, exempt
    Synonyms: rumpo, persolvo, absolvo, explicō, distraho, dissolvo
    Antonyms: ligō, colligō, illigō, cōnserō, cōnfīgō, adalligō, alligō, dēligō, nectō, cōnectō, dēfīgō, fīgō
* to solve, explain
* to dissolve, break up, separate
    similia similibus solvunturLike dissolves like.
* to relax, slacken, weaken
** 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 2.2.4–7:Vīvet extentō Proculeius aevō, nōtus in frātrēs animī paternī; illum aget pennā metuente solvī Fāma superstes.Proculeius shall live an extended age, well known for his fatherly spirit to his brothers; him will bear with feather scorning to be relaxed enduring Fame.
* to cancel, remove, destroy
    Synonym: cancellō
* to pay up, fulfil
    Synonyms: ērogō, pendo, persolvo, luo, absolvo, dissolvo
* to undermine
* (figuratively) (emotion, feelings) to get rid of, let go of, release, dismiss, loosen
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.562:“Solvite corde metum, Teucrī, sēclūdite cūrās.”“Release the fear within your heart[s], Teucrians, [and] banish worries.” (Dido tells the Trojan envoys to “unbind” the inner physical tension which follows intense emotion.)
* to let down (hair)
* to open (a letter)
* to unfurl
* to raise (a siege)
* to dismiss (troops)
* to set sail (ships)

#### Derived terms

* absolvō
* dissolvō
* exsolvō
* persolvō
* resolvō
* solūtiō

#### Descendants

* → English: solve
* → Esperanto: solvi
* French: soudre
* Italian: solvere
* Old Catalan: soldre
* Portuguese: solver
* Romanian: solvi
* Sicilian: sòrviri
* Spanish: solver

### References

* “solvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “solvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* solvo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to awake: somno solvi to perform the last rites for a person: iusta facere, solvere alicui to decide, determine a question: quaestionem solvere to open a letter: epistulam solvere, aperire, resignare (of Romans also linum incīdere) to accomplish, pay a vow: vota solvere, persolvere, reddere to pay money: pecuniam solvere to repay a loan: pecuniam creditam solvere to pay one's debts: nomina (cf. sect. XIII. 3) solvere, dissolvere, exsolvere to pay one's old debts by making new: versurā solvere, dissolvere (Att. 5. 15. 2) to free from legal obligations: legibus solvere to suffer punishment: poenas dependere, expendere, solvere, persolvere to weigh anchor, sail: solvere (B. G. 4. 28) to weigh anchor, sail: navem (naves) solvere the ships sail from the harbour: naves ex portu solvunt
* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN