bolis

English

Etymology

Latin , from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”).

Noun

bolis (plural bolides)

  1. A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.
    • 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Catalan

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

Inflection

Third declension.

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

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, 1883–1887)
  • bolis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • bolis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Spanish

Noun

bolis m pl

  1. plural of boli
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