colosso
Galician
Noun
colosso m (plural colossos, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of coloso
Further reading
- “colosso” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Italian
Etymology
From Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈlɔs.so/
- Rhymes: -ɔsso
- Hyphenation: co‧lòs‧so
Noun
colosso m (plural colossi)
Related terms
Further reading
- colosso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Noun
colossō
- dative/ablative singular of colossus
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossós).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈlo.su/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈlo.so/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kuˈlo.su/
Noun
colosso m (plural colossos)
- colossus (statue of gigantic size)
- any creature or thing of gigantic size
Related terms
Further reading
- “colosso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025