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Where does “colossal” come from?

Colossal comes from French colossal, from Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek κολοσσός, originally denoting a statue of gigantic size.

colossal (English): Extremely large or on a great scale; Amazingly...

Definitions

  1. Extremely large or on a great scale; Amazingly...

Ancestry of “colossal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcolossalcolossal, huge
2French-ál—
3Latin-ālis—
4Proto-Italic-ālis—

Words derived from “colossal”

  • colossally
  • supercolossal
  • mega-colossal
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