CONFLICT Copy link • CONFLICT 1. v. Come into hostile collision, confligere, with or without armis, manu, proelio (to fight, with reference to the violence and not the nature of the arms; of any violent conflict), with anybody, cum aliquo, or with one another, inter se: conflictari, with anybody, cum aliquo (to fight about; also, figuratively, to struggle with adversity, cum adversa fortuna): luctari, with anybody, cum aliquo (as a wrestler, for instance; also figuratively e.g., cum fluctibus): pugnare (to fight: general term): certare: concertare: contendere (mostly with addition of armis, proelio, acie, verbis): decernere (mostly with armis, ferro, proelio, acie): dimicare (mostly with proelio, acie): digladiari (all these verbs also, with anybody, cum aliquo, or with one another, together, inter se): proeliari: proelium or pugnam facere or edere [SYN. in FIGHT, Vid:] . To be at variance or inconsistent with, alicui rei repugnare or adversari; cum aliqua re pugnare or discrepare: to be conflicting (of words, evidence, etc.). inter se pugnare, repugnare, discrepare, or dissidere. Conflicting, pugnans, repugnans (of things). 2. battle, engagement, pugna: proelium. acies: proelii dimicatio: proelii concursus or congressus only [Vid: BATTLE] Act of contending, contest, certatio (contest with anybody, as action, as well in general as before a court): concertatio (the conflict of two or several persons, the dispute): certamen (contest as thing): contentio (a dispute carried on with violence): pugna (the conflict with regard to opinions; of litterati, Cic., De Div., 2, 51, in.: hic quanta pugna est doctissimorum hominum): discrepantia: repugnantia (conflicting nature of opinions, etc.). Vid. CONTEST, STRUGGLE.