collisio

Latin

Alternative forms

• conlīsiō

Etymology

From collīdō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kolˈliː.si.oː/, [kɔlˈlʲiːs̠ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kolˈli.si.o/, [kolˈliːs̬io]

Noun

collīsiō f (genitive collīsiōnis); third declension

1. clash, concussion, collision

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	collīsiō	collīsiōnēs
genitive	collīsiōnis	collīsiōnum
dative	collīsiōnī	collīsiōnibus
accusative	collīsiōnem	collīsiōnēs
ablative	collīsiōne	collīsiōnibus
vocative	collīsiō	collīsiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: col·lisió
• French: collision
• Galician: colisión
• Italian: collisione
• → Polish: kolizja
• Portuguese: colisão
• → Russian: колли́зия (kollízija)
• Spanish: colisión

References

• “collisio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• collisio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.