bolis
See also: bolíš
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin bolis, from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”). Doublet of bolide.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbolis (plural bolides)
- (archaic) A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.
- 1851, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report, volume 20, page 90:
- A bolis appearing as large as an orange, with a train some yards in length, crossed Wrenbury, Cheshire, about 10 p.m. (p. 305). The observer was my brother, Mr. William Thomson, surgeon, Wrenbury, near Nantwich.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bolis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Esperanto
editPronunciation
editVerb
editbolis
- past of boli
Latin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís).
Noun
editbolis f (genitive bolidis); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | bolis | bolidēs |
Genitive | bolidis | bolidum |
Dative | bolidī | bolidibus |
Accusative | bolidem | bolidēs |
Ablative | bolide | bolidibus |
Vocative | bolis | bolidēs |
Descendants
edit- Catalan: bolda
- → Catalan: bòlid
- → English: bolis
- → French: bolide
- → English: bolide
- → German: Bolid
- → Italian: bolide
- → Portuguese: bólide
- → Spanish: bólido
References
edit- “bolis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bolis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- bolis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “bolis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Spanish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbolis m pl
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