The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβολίς“missile, arrow, javelin”
- Latin · derived frombolis
- French · borrowed frombolide
- English todaybolide
Borrowed from French bolide, from Latin bolis, from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”). Doublet of bolis.
Words from the same roots
Latinbolis all →
bolis
Ancient Greekβολίς all →
bolis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.