Collido, collîdis, pen. prod. collîsi, collîsam. pen. prod. collídere Cic.To beate or knocke togither.Aurum colliditur, vt fiat annulus.Ouid.Confligunt & colliduntur leges. Quint. Repugne and are one against an other.Acer concursus vitos colliserat. Sil. Gloria collidit fratres.Stat.Made brothers sight togither.Collidere manus. Quint. To clap handes.Collisus. Adiect. pen. prod. Sil. Beaten: brused: squised togither.Græcía collisa bello. Horat. Soreburt.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
col-līdo (conl-), līsi, līsum, 3, v. a. [laedo], to clash, strike, dash, beat, or press together, etc. (rare; mostly post-Aug.; most freq. in Quint.). I. Prop.: umor ita mollis est, ut facile premi collidique possit, Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 31; Lucr. 1, 532: collidere manus,
to clap
, Quint. 2, 12, 10: dentes colliduntur,
chatter
, Sen. Ep. 11, 2: anulus ut fiat, primo colliditur aurum, Ov. A. A. 3, 221: mare inter se navigia collidit, Curt. 4, 3, 17; 9, 9, 16: amnis uterque colliditur, id. 8, 9, 8: silvam sibi, Manil. 1, 855: argentum factum, si fractum vel collisum est, etc.,
, Plin. 29, 2, 9, 33; cf. Gai Inst. 3, 217. —II.Trop., to bring into collision or into hostile contact, to set at variance; in pass., to become hostile, to be at variance, contend (not ante-Aug.): ambitiosa pios collidit gloria fratres, Stat. Th. 6, 435; Sil. 11, 45: Graecia barbariae lento collisa duello, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 7: collisa inter se duo rei publicae capita, Vell. 2, 52, 3: si binae (consonantes) collidantur,
come in contact
, Quint. 9, 4, 37: colliduntur aut pares (leges) inter se aut secum ipsae,