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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Seneca|origins=la solvō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ĩː.sɔˈɫuː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [in.soˈluː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''īnsolūbilis''' (neuter īnsolūbile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|in-|solvō|-bilis|t2=to loosen, pay]].^(OLD 2012)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Seneca, in On Benefits, says a debt of kindness cannot be repaid.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Seneca 4 BC–65 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Seneca it meant that cannot be repaid, and in Quintilian of a sign, that cannot be refuted, incontestable.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Macrobius uses it literally of an indissoluble bond.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)
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+ In medieval Latin it meant indissoluble, unbreakable, of bonds and charters, perpetual of divine punishment, unforgivable, and in Germanic law not to be compensated by a wergeld.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) [[en|insoluble]] is recorded in the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of a debt that cannot be repaid.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of incontestable signs.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1st half of 5th century AD – Macrobius uses it of an indissoluble bond.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''insoluble'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # That cannot be repaid.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # Incontestable, irrefutable.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # That cannot be loosed, [[m|en|indissoluble]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Unforgivable; not liable to [[m|en|wergeld]].^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[insolubilitas]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[solvo|alt=solvō]]
+ * [[solubilis|alt=solūbilis]]
+ * [[en|insoluble]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}