Translation
collision
Word origin
From Latin collidere, to strike together, built from com- meaning together and laedere, to strike or hurt. That second verb also gives English lesion, so a collision and a lesion are the impact and its consequence described by the same root.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- collidere
- English cognates
- collision, collide, lesion
Examples
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The two cars avoided a collision by one metre.
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After the collision the street was closed for hours.
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A collision between two ships at sea is a terrible thing.
is a collision: two moving things striking each other. Cars, ships,
trains, and by extension interests, timetables and versions of a file.
It is worth setting beside koincidi, at rank 2378
and landing in this same chapter, because the two describe the same geometry
with opposite manners. Things that arrive at the same point and
nothing happens; things in
a arrive at the same point and something does. Latin co-incidere is
to fall together, col-lidere is to strike together, and the difference
between falling and striking is the whole of it.
The verb is kolizii, intransitive, taking : koliziis . For the more general everyday accident there is
akcidento at rank 1055, and for the plain act of
hitting something frapi. Reach for when
both parties were moving.
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