collidere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →collido, collidere, collisi, collisus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
strike/dash together; crush, batter, deform; set into conflict with each other;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
- M
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...discursu anhelitu, iactatione gestus, motu capitis furentes. Iam collidere manus, terrae pedem incutere, femur pectus frontem caedere, mire..." - M
V
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...captivitas, profunda carceris nocte membra claudantur, datur tamen collidere catenas, artus extrahere nexibus, et habet aliquid aequanimitatis..."