In a dilute manner; in a way that is thin, weak, or reduced in concentration or intensity.
From 'dilute' (adjective/verb) plus the adverbial suffix '-ly.' The adjective 'dilute' comes from Latin 'dilutus,' past participle of 'diluere' (to wash away, to thin).
One of the few adverbs that can describe both physical states and abstract ones—you can speak 'dilutely' (weakly), feel dilutely (faintly), or even think dilutely (in unfocused way), showing how one Latin root branches across many meanings.
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