Translation
conflict; clash
Word origin
From Latin conflictus, from confligere, 'to strike together', built out of con- ('together') and fligere ('to strike'). The picture underneath the word is two things hitting each other.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- conflictus
- English cognates
- conflict, afflict, inflict
Examples
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The two countries settled the conflict without war.
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There was a long conflict between the two families.
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I do not want a conflict with my neighbours.
Another root with a tempting but imaginary seam. The ending -ikto invites you to look for a suffix -ikt-, on the model of -int- or -ant-. There is no such affix. - is one borrowed root, arriving whole from Latin, and the -flikt- inside it is Latin morphology rather than Esperanto morphology - real history, no instruction for the learner.
Scale is what separates it from its neighbours. Milito is a war, with armies. runs from two colleagues who cannot share an office up to an armed one, and it stays usable at every point on that range. Batali is the verb of actually fighting; konflikti exists too and means to be in conflict, to clash, which is a state rather than an act.
The everyday uses are the abstract ones. interesoj is a conflict of interest. Two appointments at the same hour konfliktas. Senkonflikta describes the meeting where nobody had to be talked down.
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