absolvo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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• IPA^(key): [abˈsolvo]
• Rhymes: -olvo
• Hyphenation: ab‧sol‧vo

absolvo (accusative singular absolvon, plural absolvoj, accusative plural absolvojn)

1. absolution

absolvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of absolver

From ab- (“from, away from”) +‎ solvō (“release, loosen, dissolve, take apart”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /abˈsol.u̯oː/, [äpˈs̠ɔɫ̪u̯oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈsol.vo/, [äbˈsɔlvo]

absolvō (present infinitive absolvere, perfect active absolvī, supine absolūtum); third conjugation

1. to release, discharge

   Synonyms: persolvō, līberō, excipiō, eximō, ēmittō, exonerō, prīvō

2. to loosen from, make loose, detach, untie

   Synonyms: distraho, persolvo, solvo, explicō

   Antonyms: ligō, colligō, illigō, cōnserō, cōnfīgō, adalligō, alligō, dēligō, nectō, cōnectō, dēfīgō, fīgō

3. (figuratively) to pay off

   Synonyms: ērogō, pendo, luo, persolvo, dissolvo, solvo

4. (figuratively) to complete, finish

   Synonyms: perficiō, cōnficiō, dēfungor, agō, expleō, patrō, cumulō, efficiō, conclūdō, condō, peragō, impleō, exsequor, fungor, nāvō, perpetrō, trānsigō, gerō, claudō, inclūdō, exhauriō

5. to liberate

   Synonyms: līberō, eximō, vindicō, servō, exuō, excipiō, exonerō

   Antonyms: refrēnō, coerceō, saepiō, officiō, obstō, comprimō, impediō, arceō, supprimō

6. (law) to absolve, acquit, declare innocent

   Synonyms: līberō, exonerō, probō

   Antonyms: coarguō, comperiō

   Absolvimus vōs omnis suspīciōnis.

   We absolve you of all suspicion.

• “absolvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “absolvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• absolvo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• absolvo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bring to the highest perfection: perficere et absolvere
    
  • to explain a matter briefly, in a few words (not paucis verbis): rem paucis absolvere (Sall. Iug. 17. 2)
    
  • to settle, finish a transaction: negotium (rem) conficere, absolvere
    
  • to repeal a death-sentence passed on a person: capitis absolvere aliquem
    
  • in short; to be brief: ut paucis (rem) absolvam
    

absolvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of absolver