English → Latin
“dissolve” in Latin
soleōto be accustomed, used to, in the habit ofdissolvōto unloose, disunite, separate, dissolve, destroy; to pay, discharge (a debt etc.); to abolish, abrogate, annulresolvōto release, loosen, unloose, unbind, disentangle, relax, dissolve; to enfeeble; to cancel, dispeldīluōto wash away; to drench or moisten; to purge, clear or empty (the bowels)liquōto melt, liquefy; to filter, strain; to clarify, simplifymolliōto soften, make soft, make calm, moderate, mitigate, mollify; to make unmanly or effeminateēmolliōto soften; to enervate; to (take) shelter behindeffēminōto weaken or enervate; to make feminine or emasculateēnervōto remove the nerves and sinews; to enervate, weaken; to make effeminateacētumvinegar; wit, shrewdness
The English word dissolve itself goes back to Latin luō, through dissolvo.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dissolve
TRANS.
To liquefy, to melt, solvere: dissolvere: resolvere: diluere (to cause to become fused): liquare (to fuse, to liquefy): to dissolve anything in vinegar, in wine, aceto, vino diluere: to dissolve pearls, margaritas in tabem resolvere (Plin.); margaritas liquefacere.
To disunite, Vid:
To solve; Vid:
To break up; e.g., an assembly, etc., dissolvere (e.g., the ties of friendship, an association, connection, etc.): dirimere (to separate; e.g., marriage, an association): to dissolve the ties of friendship abruptly, amicitiam repente praecidere (opposed to sensim dissuere or remissione usus eluere, i. e., by degrees): to dissolve a meeting, a committee, etc., concionem dimittere; senatum mittere or dimittere (of the sittings of the Senate); discutere (violently; illos coetus, Boeoticum concilium; both Liv.): to dissolve a partnership, societatem dirimere or dissolvere.
To relax by pleasure, mollire, emollire (Vid: proper word): effeminare (to effeminate): enervare (to enervate).
dissolve
INTRANS., solvi: dissolvi (of things); liquefieri: liquescere: liquari (to become liquid, or in a state of fusion, of metals; Vid: To FUSE): resolvi (e.g., of snow, etc.; Curt., 7, 3, 10): tabescere (to waste away; e.g., humor calore); also discuti (e.g., of fogs, etc.): attenuari (to grow thinner, to decrease): collabi (to tumble together, or on a heap): evanescere (to change into nothing, disappear entirely): dilabi (to glide away; e.g., amnis, glacies, Cic.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) liquefieri et dilabi. Dissolved, liquefactus et dilapsus (e.g., glacies, Cic.).
To melt away in pleasures, effeminari; molliri; emolliri. Vid: also, in DISSIPATED.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dissolve?
- The usual Latin words for “dissolve” are soleō, dissolvō, resolvō; also dīluō, liquō, molliō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.