solutus

soluttaa +‎ -us

• IPA^(key): /ˈsolutus/, [ˈs̠o̞lut̪us̠]
• Rhymes: -olutus
• Syllabification^(key): so‧lu‧tus

solutus

1. the act of putting something somewhere inconspicuously
2. infiltration, the act of infiltrating

• ulostus

Perfect passive participle of solvō

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /soˈluː.tus/, [s̠ɔˈɫ̪uːt̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /soˈlu.tus/, [soˈluːt̪us]

solūtus (feminine solūta, neuter solūtum, comparative solutior, superlative solutissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. unbound, released
2. free, at large
3. acquitted, absolved, cleansed
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.451-452:

     ‘sī scelus est, in mē commissī poena redundet:
     sit capitis damnō Rōma solūta meī.’

     “If it is a crime, let the punishment of its commission fall on me:
     I condemn my head, may Rome be acquitted.”
     (The Temple of Vesta ablaze, Lucius Caecilius Metellus (consul 251 BC) admits the impropriety of any man – even the pontifex maximus – entering the sacred temple of Vesta (mythology).)

   Synonyms: līber, expers, immūnis

First/second-declension adjective.

• “solutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “solutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• solutus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• solutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be never at a loss for something to say: solutum et expeditum esse ad dicendum
    
  • prose: oratio soluta (not prosa) or simply oratio
    
  • with close ranks; with ranks in disorder: confertis, solutis ordinibus