πελώριος

• τελώριος (telṓrios)
• πέλωρος (pélōros)

From πέλωρ (pélōr, “supernatural monster”) +‎ -ιος (-ios). The noun is of unknown origin; perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-ōr (“maker, builder?”) modified by dissimilation, given variant forms such as τέλωρ (télōr) and τελώριος (telṓrios) which point to an original initial *kʷ, though this derivation is problematic.^[1]

πελώρῐος • (pelṓrios) m (feminine πελωρίᾱ, neuter πελώρῐον); first/second declension

1. monstrous, prodigious
2. huge, massive, enormous, gigantic, vast

• “πελώριος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πελώριος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πελώριος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πελώριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πελώριος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • gigantic idem, page 359.
  • vast idem, page 945.

From Ancient Greek πελώριος (pelṓrios, “enormous”), from πέλωρ (pélōr, “supernatural monster”), of unknown origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-ōr modified by dissimilation, given variant forms such as τέλωρ (télōr) and τελώριος (telṓrios) which point to an original initial *kʷ, though this derivation is problematic.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /peˈlo.ri.os/

πελώριος • (pelórios) m (feminine πελώρια, neuter πελώριο)

1. huge, massive, enormous, gigantic, humongous

   Ο ψαράς έπιασε ένα πελώριο ψάρι.

   O psarás épiase éna pelório psári.

   The fisherman caught a huge fish.

• τεράστιος (terástios, “massive”)
• υπερμεγέθης (ypermegéthis, “oversized”)
• κολοσσιαίος (kolossiaíos, “colossal”)
• γιγάντιος (gigántios, “gigantic”)