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Colossus

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a person or thing of immense size, power, or importance
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Stage 1 of 2
kolossos
Greek · ancient
"a giant statue"
a giant statue, most famously the bronze Colossus of Rhodes
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Stage 2 of 2
colossus
English · 1500s
"something of gigantic size or importance"
broadened from the statue itself to anything of gigantic scale
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