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- dissolve




- dissolve: see solve
- resolve




- resolve: see solve
- solve




- 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.)




- early 15c., from Latin absolvere "set free, loosen, acquit," from ab- "from" (see ab-) + solvere "loosen" (see solve). Related: Absolved; absolving.
- dissolve (v.)




- 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.)




- 1660s; see insolvent + -cy. Insolvence (1793) is rare.
- insolvent (adj.)




- 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.)




- 1650s, from ir- + resolvable. Related: Irresolvably.
- resolvable (adj.)




- 1640s, from resolve (v.) + -able.
- resolve (v.)




- 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.)




- "determination, firmness or fixedness of purpose; a determination," 1590s, from resolve (v.).
- resolved (adj.)




- "determined," 1520s, past participle adjective from resolve (v.). Related: Resolvedly.
- solvable (adj.)




- 1640s, from solve + -able.
- solvation (n.)




- 1909, noun of action from solvate, a verb used in chemistry, from solvent + -ate (2).
- solve (v.)




- 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.)




- 1727, from solvent + -cy.
- solvent (adj.)




- 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.)




- "substance able to dissolve other substances," 1670s, from Latin solventem (see solvent (n.)).
- solvitur ambulando




- 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.)




- 1570s, "undecided" (of questions), from un- (1) "not" + past participle of resolve (v.). Meaning "uncertain in opinion" is attested from 1590s.
- unsolved (adj.)




- 1660s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of solve (v.).
- solvate




- "(Of a solvent) enter into reversible chemical combination with (a dissolved molecule, ion, etc.)", Early 20th century: formed irregularly from solve + -ate1.