Colosseum

See also: colosseum

English

An external view of the Colosseum, 2007

Etymology

From Late Latin, from Latin colosseus (“colossal”); a mediaeval term for the classical Latin Amphitheatrum Flavium; see also coliseum.

Proper noun

the Colosseum

1. The largest stadium in the Roman empire, located near the center of Rome.
   • 2002, Tracey Ann Schofield, Rome‎^[1], page 39:

     The Colosseum (known at the time as the Flavian Amphitheater) in Rome was the empire's greatest amphitheater. A marvel of Roman engineering, the Colosseum could hold up to 70,000 spectators.

   • 2007, Luciano Mangiafico, Italy's Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Roman Ruins, Wonderful Wines, and Renaissance Rarities‎^[2], page 36:

     The Colosseum’s elliptical shape is 617 feet long, 512 feet across, and 159 feet high.

   • 2009, Holly Hughes, Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up, unnumbered page:

     Perhaps no classical Roman ruin evokes the excesses of the late Empire like the Colosseum.

Related terms

• colossal
• colosseum
• colossus

Translations

ancient stadium in Rome

• Akan: Colosseo
• Albanian: Koloseumi m
• Amharic: ኮሎሲየም m (kolosiyäm)
• Arabic: كُولُوسِّيُوم (kūlūssiyūm)
• Aragonese: Coloseu m
• Armenian: Կոլիզեում (Kolizeum)
• Assamese: ক'ল'ছিয়াম (ko'lo'siam), কলোছিয়াম (kolüsiam)
• Asturian: Coliséu m
• Azerbaijani: Kolizey
• Bashkir: Колизей (Kolizey)
• Basque: Koliseoa
• Belarusian: Калізей m (Kalizjej)
• Bengali: কলোসিয়াম (kolōśiẏam)
• Bihari: कोलोसियम (kolosiyam)
• Breton: C'holize m
• Bulgarian: Колизей m (Kolizej)
• Burmese: ကိုလော့စီယမ် (kuilau.ciyam)
• Catalan: Colosseu m
• Chechen: Колизей (Kolizej)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古羅馬圓形大劇場 / 古罗马圆形大剧场 (gǔluómǎ yuánxíng dàjùchǎng), 羅馬鬥獸場 / 罗马斗兽场 (luómǎ dòushòuchǎng)

• Czech: Koloseum (cs) n
• Emilian: Colosseo m
• Esperanto: Koloseo
• Faroese: Kolosseum
• Finnish: Colosseum
• French: Colisée (fr) m
• Galician: Coliseo m
• Georgian: კოლოსეუმი (ḳoloseumi), კოლიზეუმი (ḳolizeumi)
• German: Kolosseum (de) n
• Greek: Κολοσσαίο (el) n (Kolossaío)
• Gujarati: કોલોસીયમ (kolosīyam)
• Hebrew: קולוסיאום
• Hindi: कोलोसियम (kolosiyam)
• Hungarian: Colosseum (hu)
• Indonesian: Koloseum
• Interlingua: Colosseo
• Irish: Colasaem m
• Italian: Colosseo m
• Japanese: コロッセオ (Korosseo)
• Kabiyé: Koliisee
• Kazakh: Колизей (Kolizei)
• Korean: 콜로세움 (Kollose'um), 콜롯세움 (Kollotse'um), 콜롯세오 (Kollotse'o)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Coliseum, Kolîseyûm

• Kyrgyz: Колизей (Kolizey)
• Latin: Colosseum n
• Latvian: Kolizejs m
• Ligurian: Colosseo m
• Lithuanian: Koliziejus m
• Luxembourgish: Kolosseum n
• Macedonian: Колосеум m (Koloseum)
• Maithili: कोलोसियम (kolosiyam)
• Malay: Koloseum
• Malayalam: കൊളോസിയം (koḷōsiyaṁ)
• Marathi: कलोसियम (kalosiyam)
• Mingrelian: კოლოსეუმი (ḳoloseumi)
• Mongolian: Колизей (Kolizej)
• Nepali: कोलोसियम (kolosiyam)
• Newar: कोलोजियम (kolojiyama), कोलिसियम (kolisiyama)
• Occitan: Colisèu m
• Odia: କୋଲୋଜିୟମ୍ (kolojiyam)
• Persian: کولوسئوم (fa)
• Piedmontese: Colossé m
• Polish: Koloseum (pl) n
• Portuguese: Coliseu m
• Punjabi: ਕਲੋਸੀਅਮ (kalosīama)
• Russian: Колизе́й (ru) m (Kolizéj)
• Samogitian: Kolėzėjos m
• Saterland Frisian: Kolosseum
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Колосѐум m

  Roman: Kolosèum m

• Sicilian: Culusseu m
• Slovak: Koloseum n
• Slovene: Kolosej m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Koloseum m

  Upper Sorbian: Koloseum m

• Spanish: Coliseo m
• Sundanese: Koloseum
• Swedish: Kolosseum, Colosseum
• Tagalog: Koliseo, Koloseo
• Tamil: கொலோசியம் (kolōciyam)
• Tatar: Колизей (Qolizey)
• Telugu: కొలోస్సియం (kolōssiyaṁ)
• Thai: โคลอสเซียม (koh-lôt-siam), โคลิเซียม (koh-lí-siam)
• Turkish: Kolezyum
• Ukrainian: Колізе́й m (Kolizéj)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: Колизей (Kolizey)

  Roman: Kolizey

• Veps: Kolizei
• Waray-Waray: Coliseo
• West Frisian: Kolosseum
• Yiddish: קאָלאָסעום (koloseum)
• Zazaki: Kolezyum

See also

• coliseum