dissolutus Latin · revision 32435

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *l(é)uH-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [dɪs.sɔˈɫuː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [dis.soˈluː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dissolūtus''' (feminine dissolūta, neuter dissolūtum, superlative dissolūtissimus); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the perfect passive participle [[der|la|dissolvō|t=to loosen, dissolve]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) [[m|la|dissolvō]] is a compound of [[m|la|solvō|t=to loosen]], which de Vaan explains as *se- "away" and [[m|la|luō|t=to loosen]]; he traces [[m|la|luō]] to [[ine-pro|*l(é)uH-|t=to cut loose]], comparing [[grc|λύω|tr=lúō|t=to loosen, liberate]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means loose, not firmly fixed: Vitruvius says that reticulate masonry has its beds and joints loose in every direction.^(OLD 2012) Of speech it is loosely put together or disjointed: Cicero wants a style neither disjointed nor wholly rhythmical.^(OLD 2012) Most often it is morally lax, easy-going, weak or dissolute, as Cicero's generous, easy-going man overflowing with kindness, and of behaviour careless, as the dissolute negligence in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it feeble, loose.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of disjointed style and of an easy-going man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of loose masonry joints.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|loose|alt=Loose]], not firmly fixed.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of words, loosely put together, [[m|en|disjointed]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Lax, [[m|en|negligent]], easy-going, weak; [[m|en|dissolute]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dissolvo|alt=dissolvō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}