bolis

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See also: bolíš

English

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Etymology 1

From Latin bolis, from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”). Doublet of bolide.

Noun

bolis (plural bolides)

  1. (archaic) A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.
    Synonyms: bolide, fireball
    • 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Etymology 2

Noun

bolis

  1. plural of boli

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Catalan

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Noun

bolis

  1. plural of boli

Esperanto

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Verb

bolis

  1. past of boli

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís).

Noun

bolis f (genitive bolidis); third declension

  1. (astronomy) a meteor of the form of an arrow

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative bolis bolidēs
genitive bolidis bolidum
dative bolidī bolidibus
accusative bolidem bolidēs
ablative bolide bolidibus
vocative bolis bolidēs

Descendants

References

  • “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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbolis/
  • Rhymes: -olis
  • Syllabification: bo‧lis

Noun

bolis m pl

  1. plural of boli
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