bolis

See also: bolíš

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboʊlɪs/

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• Blois, Silbo, bilos, boils

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈbɔ.lis]

Noun

bolis

1. plural of boli

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbolis/

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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bolis	bolidēs
Genitive	bolidis	bolidum
Dative	bolidī	bolidibus
Accusative	bolidem	bolidēs
Ablative	bolide	bolidibus
Vocative	bolis	bolidēs

Descendants

• Catalan: bolda
• → Catalan: bòlid
• → English: bolis
• → French: bolide
  • → English: bolide
• → German: Bolid
• → Italian: bolide
• → Portuguese: bólide
• → Spanish: bólido

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/ [ˈbo.lis]
• Rhymes: -olis
• Syllabification: bo‧lis

Noun

bolis m pl

1. plural of boli