absolver
English
Etymology
absolve + -er
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æbˈzɑl.vɚ/, /əbˈzɑl.vɚ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
absolver (plural absolvers)
- Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves. [First attested in the late 16th century.][1]
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:
- […] how hast thou the heart,
Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
A sin-absolver, and my friend profess’d,
To mangle me with that word ‘banished’?
- 1684, Richard Baxter, Whether Parish Congregations Be True Christian Churches, London: Thomas Parkhurst, p. 2,
- […] few men dislike the Lay-Excommunicators and Absolvers more than I do […]
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Translations
one who absolves
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References
- Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absolver”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin absolvō.
Verb
absolver
- (transitive) to absolve
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /absɔlˈʋeːr/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eːr
- Hyphenation: ab‧sol‧ver
Verb
absolver
- imperative of absolvere
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin absolvere.
Verb
absolver (first-person singular present absolvo, first-person singular preterite absolvi, past participle absolvido)
- to absolve
- (law) to acquit
- to forgive
Conjugation
Conjugation of absolver (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | absolver | |||||
| Personal | absolver | absolveres | absolver | absolvermos | absolverdes | absolverem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| absolvendo | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | absolvido | absolvidos | ||||
| Feminine | absolvida | absolvidas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | absolvo | absolves | absolve | absolvemos | absolveis | absolvem |
| Imperfect | absolvia | absolvias | absolvia | absolvíamos | absolvíeis | absolviam |
| Preterite | absolvi | absolveste | absolveu | absolvemos | absolvestes | absolveram |
| Pluperfect | absolvera | absolveras | absolvera | absolvêramos | absolvêreis | absolveram |
| Future | absolverei | absolverás | absolverá | absolveremos | absolvereis | absolverão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| absolveria | absolverias | absolveria | absolveríamos | absolveríeis | absolveriam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | absolva | absolvas | absolva | absolvamos | absolvais | absolvam |
| Imperfect | absolvesse | absolvesses | absolvesse | absolvêssemos | absolvêsseis | absolvessem |
| Future | absolver | absolveres | absolver | absolvermos | absolverdes | absolverem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | absolve | absolva | absolvamos | absolvei | absolvam | |
| Negative (não) | não absolvas | não absolva | não absolvamos | não absolvais | não absolvam | |
Related terms
- absolução
- absolutório
Further reading
- “absolver” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin absolvō, adapted to the conjugations of the inherited verb solver.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /absolˈbeɾ/ [aβ̞.solˈβ̞eɾ]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: ab‧sol‧ver
Verb
absolver (first-person singular present absuelvo, first-person singular preterite absolví, past participle absuelto)
- (transitive) to absolve
- (transitive) to acquit
Conjugation
Conjugation of absolver (irregular; o-ue alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | absolver | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | absolviendo | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | absuelto | absuelta | |||||
| plural | absueltos | absueltas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | absuelvo | absuelvestú absolvésvos | absuelve | absolvemos | absolvéis | absuelven | |
| imperfect | absolvía | absolvías | absolvía | absolvíamos | absolvíais | absolvían | |
| preterite | absolví | absolviste | absolvió | absolvimos | absolvisteis | absolvieron | |
| future | absolveré | absolverás | absolverá | absolveremos | absolveréis | absolverán | |
| conditional | absolvería | absolverías | absolvería | absolveríamos | absolveríais | absolverían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | absuelva | absuelvastú absolvásvos2 | absuelva | absolvamos | absolváis | absuelvan | |
| imperfect (ra) | absolviera | absolvieras | absolviera | absolviéramos | absolvierais | absolvieran | |
| imperfect (se) | absolviese | absolvieses | absolviese | absolviésemos | absolvieseis | absolviesen | |
| future1 | absolviere | absolvieres | absolviere | absolviéremos | absolviereis | absolvieren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | absuelvetú absolvévos | absuelva | absolvamos | absolved | absuelvan | ||
| negative | no absuelvas | no absuelva | no absolvamos | no absolváis | no absuelvan | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Related terms
- absolución
- absoluto
- absolutorio
Further reading
- “absolver”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014