English → Latin
“resolve” 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, dispelsēiungōto separate, sever or disunite; to excludesēcernōto put apart, sunder, sever, separate, divide; to disjoin, part, dissociate, separate; to distinguish, discerntollōto raise, lift up, elevate; to remove, take away, steal, rob; to destroy, eliminate, annulstatuōto put up (something); to stand (something) in an upright position; to establish, determine, fix (the form or character cōnstituōto place, put, locate, lay; to set up, establish, constitute, found; to build, erect, constructdēcernōto decide, decide upon, settle, determine (especially something disputed or doubtful); to pronounce a decision concernindēstinōto bind, fasten, secure, fix, make fast; to establish, determine, resolve, consider, predict, destine; to intend, devote
The English word resolve itself goes back to Latin luō, through resolvō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
resolve
Transitively, To dissolve, solvere: dissolvere: resolvere; if = liquefy, liquefacere: liquare: diluere.
To separate, dissolvere: sejungere: secernere.
To solve, solvere (qnaestionem, Gell.); dissolvere (interrogationem, Cic.); solvere (aenigma, Quint.); solvere, resolvere (ambiguitatem, Quint.); tollere (dubitationem, Cic.).
Intransitively, To determine, statuere, constituere, decernere, upon anything, aliquid, or followed by an infinitive (to fix, settle, determine): consilium capere (to form a determination or resolution: followed by the gerund in di or infinitive, or ut; Vid: in “to form a RESOLUTION”): inducere animum or in animum (to bring one’s mind to; followed by an infinitive or ut): decernere (PROP., to decree that anything shall take place; then = to resolve): apud animum statuere, constituere (to fix, settle): destinare, animo proponere (to propose to one’s self: ☞ the latter without animo, especially in the Silver Age): censere, placet alicui (of the Senate): sciscere: jubere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) sciscere jubereque (to make a law or ordinance, sciscere especially of the plebs, jubere of the populus; Vid: commentators on Nep., Arist., 1, 4; Heusingg., Cic., Off., 3, 11, 1): I am resolved, certum est mihi; stat mihi (sententia); statutum habeo cum animo et deliberatum: to be sufficiently resolved upon, etc., satis habere consilium de, etc. (Cic., Att., 12, 50, extr.). [Vid: also, “my RESOLUTION is firm. “] Not to be able to resolve on anything, animi or animo pendere; varie or in diversas partes distrahi; certum consilium capere non posse; certa aliqua in sententia consistere non posse; haereo quid faciam; in incerto habeo, quidnam consilii capiam.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for resolve?
- The usual Latin words for “resolve” are soleō, dissolvō, resolvō; also sēiungō, sēcernō, tollō. 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.