dissolveyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
dissolve: see solve
resolveyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
resolve: see solve
solveyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
solve: [15] Etymologically, solve means ‘release’, particularly by the payment of debt. It was borrowed from Latin solvere ‘release, unbind, pay’, which was descended from an earlier *seluere. This was a compound verb based on luere ‘loosen, release, pay’, a descendant of the same Indo-European base that produced English analyse, loose, lose, etc.

The notion of ‘payment of debts’ survives in English solvent [17], and a metaphorical extension of ‘loosening’ to ‘turning a solid into a liquid’ can be seen in soluble [14] and the derivative dissolve [14]. The use of solve for ‘explain’, now the major English sense, emerged in Latin, but it was not a major feature of the Latin verb. Other related forms include absolute, absolve, and resolve [14].

=> absolute, absolve, analyse, dissolve, loose, lose, resolve, solution
absolve (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
early 15c., from Latin absolvere "set free, loosen, acquit," from ab- "from" (see ab-) + solvere "loosen" (see solve). Related: Absolved; absolving.
dissolve (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
late 14c. (transitive and intransitive) "to break up" (of material substances), from Latin dissolvere "to loosen up, break apart," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + solvere "to loose, loosen" (see solve). Meaning "to disband" (an assembly) is early 15c. Related: Dissolved; dissolving.
insolvency (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1660s; see insolvent + -cy. Insolvence (1793) is rare.
insolvent (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1590s, "unable to pay one's debts," from in- (1) "not" + Latin solventem "paying" (see solvent). Originally of one who was not a trader; only traders could become bankrupt.
irresolvable (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1650s, from ir- + resolvable. Related: Irresolvably.
resolvable (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1640s, from resolve (v.) + -able.
resolve (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
late 14c., "melt, dissolve, reduce to liquid;" intransitive sense from c. 1400; from Old French resolver or directly from Latin resolvere "to loosen, loose, unyoke, undo; explain; relax; set free; make void, dispel," from re-, perhaps intensive, or "back" (see re-), + solvere "loosen" (see solve). Early 15c. as "separate into components," hence the use in optics (1785). Meaning "determine, decide upon" is from 1520s, hence "pass a resolution" (1580s). For sense evolution, compare resolute (adj.). Related: Resolved; resolving.
resolve (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"determination, firmness or fixedness of purpose; a determination," 1590s, from resolve (v.).
resolved (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"determined," 1520s, past participle adjective from resolve (v.). Related: Resolvedly.
solvable (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1640s, from solve + -able.
solvation (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1909, noun of action from solvate, a verb used in chemistry, from solvent + -ate (2).
solve (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
late 14c., "to disperse, dissipate, loosen," from Latin solvere "to loosen, dissolve; untie, release, detach; depart; unlock; scatter; dismiss; accomplish, fulfill; explain; remove," from PIE *se-lu-, from reflexive pronoun *s(w)e- (see idiom) + root *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart" (see lose). The meaning "explain, answer" is attested from 1530s; for sense evolution, see solution. Mathematical use is attested from 1737. Related: Solved; solving.
solvency (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1727, from solvent + -cy.
solvent (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1650s, "able to pay all one owes," from French solvent, from Latin solventem (nominative solvens), present participle of solvere "loosen, dissolve" (see solve).
solvent (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"substance able to dissolve other substances," 1670s, from Latin solventem (see solvent (n.)).
solvitur ambulandoyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
an appeal to practical experience for a solution or proof, Latin, literally "(the problem) is solved by walking," originally in reference to the proof by Diogenes the Cynic of the possibility of motion.
unresolved (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1570s, "undecided" (of questions), from un- (1) "not" + past participle of resolve (v.). Meaning "uncertain in opinion" is attested from 1590s.
unsolved (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1660s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of solve (v.).
solvateyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"(Of a solvent) enter into reversible chemical combination with (a dissolved molecule, ion, etc.)", Early 20th century: formed irregularly from solve + -ate1.