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
- Extremely large or on a great scale; Amazingly...
Ancestry of “colossal”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | colossal | colossal, huge |
| 2 | French | -ál | al; appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form; often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also |
| 3 | Latin | -ālis | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -ālis | forms relational adjectives |
Words derived from “colossal”