English
collide
Collide comes from Latin collīdō ‘to clash, strike, dash, beat, or press together’, and goes back to laedō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElaedō‘to strike, collide, hurt’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcollīdō‘to clash, strike, dash, beat, or press together’
- Englishearliest quotation 1837collide
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElaedō‘to strike, collide, hurt’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcollīdō‘to clash, strike, dash, beat, or press together’
- Englishearliest quotation 1837collide
Earliest quotation: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […]: “No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.”
Linked words
through Ancient Greek λίθος ‘stone’
through Latin laedō ‘to strike, collide, hurt’
Today it means
verb To make a direct impact, especially if violent.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin laedō / collide