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"Pretty disappointing etymology. “Uh it’s from the Greek for ‘gigantic statue’”"

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  "colossus (n.)
  "gigantic statue," late 14c., from Latin colossus "a statue larger than life," from Greek kolossos "gigantic statue," which is of unknown origin. The Greek word was used by Herodotus of giant Egyptian statues and by Romans of the bronze Helios at the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes. Figurative sense of
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