collido

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Galician

Participle

collido (feminine collida, masculine plural collidos, feminine plural collidas)

  1. past participle of coller

Italian

Verb

collido

  1. first-person singular present indicative of collidere

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Latin

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Etymology

From con- +‎ laedō (to hurt).

Pronunciation

Verb

collīdō (present infinitive collīdere, perfect active collīsī, supine collīsum); third conjugation

  1. 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.
  2. 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.