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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | Date: 1996

colossus gigantic statue, e.g. that at Rhodes. XIV. — L. colossus — Gr. kolossós.
So colossal XVIII. — F.

© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996.

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