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colossus
2 English words descend from Latin
colossus
, most common first.
colossal
Extremely large or on a great scale.
colossus
A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.