bolide

English

An especially bright meteor, a bolide (in astronomy)

Etymology

Borrowed from French bolide, from Latin bolis, from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.laɪd/, /ˈboʊ.lɪd/

Noun

bolide (plural bolides)

1. An extremely bright meteor.
2. Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth.
   • Alan Harris

     The smallest impactor that can penetrate the atmosphere deep enough to cause any damage on the ground is not much smaller than the "Tunguska" bolide that flattened a couple thousand square miles of Siberian forest in 1908.

3. A fireball.

Derived terms

• superbolide

Translations

extremely bright meteor

• Catalan: bòlid (ca) m
• Czech: bolid m
• Esperanto: bolido
• French: bolide (fr) m
• German: Bolide (de) m
• Ido: bolido (io)
• Italian: bolide (it) m
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• Persian: تیرشهاب (tīršahāb), شخانه (fa) (šaxāne)
• Polish: bolid (pl) m
• Punjabi: ਉਲਕਾ ਪਿੰਡ (ulkā pinḍ)
• Russian: боли́д (ru) m (bolíd)
• Spanish: bólido (es) m

any extraterrestrial body that collides with earth

• Italian: meteora (it) f
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• Russian: метеори́т (ru) m (meteorít)

fireball

• Danish: ildkugle c
• Italian: palla di fuoco f, bolide (it) m, stella cadente (it) f
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• Persian: آذرگوی (fa) (āδargūy), آتش‌گوی (ātašgūy)

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• Ido: ^{(please verify)} bolido (io)
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Anagrams

• boiled, odible, oldbie

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin bolis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.lid/
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

bolide m (plural bolides)

1. (astronomy) fireball
2. (by analogy) fast racing car; speedster, high-powered car

Further reading

• “bolide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin bolis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”).

Noun

bolide m (plural bolidi)

1. (astronomy) meteor
2. (automotive) racing car

Anagrams

• deboli
• delibo, delibò