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8-letter words (1 found)

COLOSSUS,

6-letter words (1 found)

CUSSOS,

5-letter words (10 found)

CLOUS,COOLS,CUSSO,LOCOS,LOCUS,SCULS,SOLOS,SOLUS,SOOLS,SOULS,

4-letter words (19 found)

CLOU,COLS,COOL,COOS,COSS,CUSS,LOCO,LOOS,LOSS,LOUS,SCUL,SOCS,SOLO,SOLS,SOOL,SOSS,SOUL,SOUS,SUSS,

3-letter words (13 found)

COL,COO,COS,LOO,LOS,LOU,OOS,OUS,SOC,SOL,SOS,SOU,SUS,

2-letter words (6 found)

LO,OO,OS,OU,SO,US,

You can make 50 words from colossus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of colossus

colossus

Etymology

From Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossós, “large statue, especially the colossus of Rhodes”), from an unknown Pre-Greek etymon (and erroneously associated with κολοφών).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈlɑs.əs/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈlɒs.əs/
  • Rhymes: -ɒsəs

Noun

colossus (plural colossi or colossuses)

  1. A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
  2. (by extension) Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
    • 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: "The Merchant Princes", chapter 18, pages 186–187:
      ["]The Empire has always been a realm of colossal resources. […] Why, they don't even understand their own colossi any longer. The machines work from generation to generation automatically, and the caretakers are a hereditary caste who would be helpless if a single D-tube in all that vast structure burnt out.["]
    • 2010 August 11 (5:00pm), Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, "Shadow of the Colossus" reviewed by Zero Punctuation, 3:27–3:42 and 3:56–4:08
      What I love about the colossi is that they actually feel colossal : they move ponderously around, sending out tremours with each step; their ancient husks richly detailed with dirt and plant life.
  3. (figurative) Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.

Related terms

  • colossal
  • Colosseum

Translations

Further reading

  • Colossus of Rhodes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “colossus”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  • colossus, colossuses, colossi at Google Ngram Viewer
  • “colossus, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “colossus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “colossus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • “colossus” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossós, “large statue”), especially the colossus of Rhodes.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /koˈlos.sus/, [kɔˈɫ̪ɔs̠ːʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈlos.sus/, [koˈlɔsːus]

Noun

colossus m (genitive colossī); second declension

  1. colossus, giant statue

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

  • → Catalan: colós
  • → English: colossus
  • → French: colosse
  • Galician: coloso
  • Italian: colosso
  • Portuguese: colosso
  • Romanian: colos
  • Sicilian: culossu
  • Spanish: coloso

See also

  • Colosseum
  • statua

References

  • “colossus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “colossus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • colossus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • colossus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “colossus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[2]
  • “colossus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “colossus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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