“dash” in Latin

Strike or knock against, offendere aliquid ad aliquid (unintentionally; e.g., one’s head against the door, caput ad fores; one’s foot against a stone, pedem ad lapidem): aliquid illidere or impingere alicui rei (purposely; illidere, referring to the injury received; impingere, to the violence of the shock; one’s head against the door, caput foribus illidere; one’s head violently against the wall, caput parieti ingenti impetu impingere): allidere (to dash anything against anything; rare, but classical: pars ad scopulos allisa, Caes.): affligere (to strike down; PROP., and figuratively; opposed to excitare; also to dash against; e.g., affligere navem ad scopulos, Cic.): to dash one’s self against anything, impingere se in aliquid (e.g., in columnas, Sen., ): offendere aliquid; illidi or impingi alicui rei: incutere aliquid alicui rei (to strike it against it; e.g., pedem terras [ = to stamp on it], Quint., pollicem limini cubiculi, Plin.). to dash one’s fist into anybody, impingere pugnum alicui (Plaut.). to dash anybody’s brains out, caput elidere (e.g., saxo, Liv., 21, 45); alicujus cerebrum or caput comminuere (prce-classical); excutere cerebrum alicui (Plaut.). cerebrum effringere (Verg.). [☞ OBS. Liv., 8, 6; lapsus per gradus, capite graviter offenso, ita impact us est saxo, ut sopiretur, shows that impingere, may be used in the passive without implying intention]. To dash the ships one against another, inter se navigia collidere (Curt.): to dash a cup from anybody’s hands, excutere poculum e manibus (Persius). To dash to pieces, confringere: effringere (break to pieces): discutere (by a violent blow, separating the parts of a structure; e.g., columnam; lateritium; aliquantum muri): contundere (to pound to pieces, contusi ac debilitati inter saxa rupesque, Liv., 21, 40). To be dashed to pieces (of ships), elidi et naufragio interire (Caes., B. C. . 3, 27, very rare).

To sprinkle with anything; e.g., water, aspergere conspergere: respergere.

To mingle anything with anything, miscere aliquid cum aliqua re, aliquid aliqua re, or aliquid alicui rei; admiscere alicui rei; or, in the passive, admisceri aliqua re.

To dash, or put out of countenance, pudorem alicui injicere, incutere: ruborem alicui afferre (to put to the blush, Tac., Ann., 13, 15, 2). To be dashed, pudor suffunditur mini; pudore arncior aliqua re; dashed, pudore suffusus.

To frustrate (Vid :) ad vanum, or ad irritum, or ad vanum et irritum redigere; ad nihil redigere; disturbare (e.g., nuptias; legem): to dash all anybody’s projects, conturbare alicui omnes rationes; alicujus consilia discutere (Justinus, 2, extr.): death dashes all one’s hopes and projects, omnem spem atque omnia vitae consilia mors pervertit.

Dash out; [Vid: ERASE].

To beat down; to dash anybody’s pride, alicujus spiritus reprimere: to dash anybody’s hopes or confidence, alicujus spem infringere, debilitare; spem alicui praecidere.

Sketch hastily (Pope), primis velut lineis aliquid designare.

INTR., impingi, illidi, allidi alicui rei (e.g., saxo): offendere alicui rei and in aliquo (e.g., offendere solido, Hor.; puppis offendit in scopulo, Ov.): affligi (e.g., naves saxo).

Rush: Vid: to RUSH; to dash (= rush) into [Vid: “to DART into”]. The waves d dash violently against the shore, fluctus se illidunt maximo cum sonitu in litus. The waves dash over the ships, naves fluctibus complentur (Caes., B.G., 4, 28).

Collision, collisus (post-Augustan): concursio. illisus (only in ablative; illisu aquarum, Silius): ictus levis (a light stroke).

Violent and sudden onset, incursio: incursus: impetus. To make a dash against the enemy, equum or se immittere in hostes; incurrere, invehi in hostem.

A sprinkling, respersio.

A small portion, or admixture of anything, paullulum: exiguum (Liv., and post-classical; e.g., aquae, mellis): nescio quid: aliquid. A dash of litterature, literularum nescio quid (Cic., Att., 7, 2, 7). A man with a dash of impudence, paullum impudens. It may often be translated by non sine (with or without quidam): not without a dash of envy, non sine invidia: to have a dash of (any color; e.g., ) violet, in violam vergere; violam sentire; in violam desinere.

A mark in writing, *signum orationis praecisae (unknown to the ancients): by a single dash of his pen, una litterarum significatione (of an order given by a single letter).