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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Varro|origins=la solvō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [sɔˈɫuː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [soˈlut.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''solūtiō''' ''f'' (genitive solūtiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[solvō]] “to loosen, release, pay” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Varro, of giving money in payment.^(OLD 2012) Köbler's first source is Cicero; he dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Lewis and Short call it rare but classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It meant an unfastening of knots, the unbinding of a prisoner, as in Seneca, and in Cicero ''solūtiō linguae'' freedom of the tongue, fluency.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant the breaking up of a structure, dissolution, as Cicero's dissolution of the whole man, and in Pliny a looseness of the bowels.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From Cicero it meant the payment of a debt, and in Quintilian the fulfilment of a bargain, and Gellius uses it of the solving of a puzzle.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant dissolution, freedom, loosening, payment.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it of the remission of sins, deliverance, death, and wergild.^(Niermeyer 1976) [[en|solution]] came in the late 14th century through Old French, of an explanation and of the dissolving of a substance.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of payment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of dissolution and of paying debts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of solving a puzzle.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''solution'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # An unfastening; a release, ''solūtiō linguae'', fluency.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Looseness of the bowels.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Dissolution.^(OLD 2012)
+ # The [[m|en|solution]] of a puzzle.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Payment of a debt; fulfilment of a bargain.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Remission of sins; death; [[m|en|wergild]].^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[solūbilis]]
+ * [[solūtē]]
+ * [[solūtim]]
+ * [[solūtor]]
+ * [[solūtrīx]]
+ * [[solvō]]
+ * [[en|solution]]
+ * [[en|solve]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}