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solvere

solvere is a Latin form of solvo, meaning “loosen, release; pay”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 114 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.181: ex omni pecunia quam aratoribus solvere debuisti certis nominibus deductiones fieri solebant, primum pro spectatione et collybo, deinde pro nescio qu …

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.784: Solvere, et effusis colla reflecte comis.

Suetonius, Galba 15.1: … et si quid scaenici ac xystici donatum olim uendidissent, auferretur emptoribus, quando illi pretio absumpto soluere nequirent.

All forms of solvo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.