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Galician
Participle
collido (feminine collida, masculine plural collidos, feminine plural collidas)
- past participle of coller
Italian
Verb
collido
- first-person singular present indicative of collidere
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Latin
Etymology
From con- + laedō (“to hurt”).
Pronunciation
Verb
collīdō (present infinitive collīdere, perfect active collīsī, supine collīsum); third conjugation
- to clash, strike, dash, beat, or press together
- 4th/5th C. CE, Symphosius, Aenigmata 52 in Poetae Latini Minores (volume III), Emil Baehrens (editor), Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Leipzig 1879, page 375:
Inter saxa fuī, quae mē contrīta premēbant,
Vix tamen effūgī tōtīs conlīsa medullīs;
Et iam fōrma mihī minor est, sed cōpia maior.- I've been between stones, which pressed me, rubbed against one another,
I could barely escape, beaten in every bone;
and now my shape is smaller, but my quantity greater.
- to conflict or contend
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References
- “collido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- collido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.