colosseum

• coliseum
• colossæum (archaic)

From Latin Colosseum, from neuter of colosseus (“gigantic”), from Ancient Greek κολοσσιαῖος (kolossiaîos), from κολοσσός (kolossós, “giant statue”).

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colosseum (plural colosseums)

1. Alternative spelling of coliseum
   • 1971, The Canadian Banker, page 6:

     The temples and banking halls of Rome were turned into churches, and the deserted shells of the great monuments, the baths, the stadia and colossea, were used as quarries for buildings to come.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko.losˈseː.um/, [kɔɫ̪ɔs̠ˈs̠eːʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.losˈse.um/, [kolosˈsɛːum]

colossēum

1. inflection of colossēus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

• “colosseum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “colosseum”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press