The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκολοσσός“large statue, especially the colossus of Rhodes”
- Latin · borrowed fromcolossus
- English todaycolossus
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).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.