Etymology

ponderous

P3O1N1D2E1R1O1U1S1

Today it means: Heavy, massive, weighty. Full definition →

Latin ponderōsus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromponderōsus“weighty”
  2. English todayponderous

Ultimately from Latin ponderōsus (“weighty”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.