discobolus

British  

/ dɪsˈkɒbələs /

noun

1. (in classical Greece) a discus thrower

2. a statue of a discus thrower

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Etymology

Origin of discobolus

C18: from Latin, from Greek diskobolos, from diskos _discus + -bolos, from ballein to throw

Example Sentences

Jay Silvester turned discobolus as an eighth-grader: handed the discus of an older friend, he skimmed it 30 ft. into a pasture on his father's Tremonton, Utah. farm.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the Olympic games two summers ago, another Greek sculptor fashioned a discobolus, along more authentic lines, with models who knew all the facts and intricacies of discus-throwing.

From Time Magazine Archive

But for our golfing suggestion some of the discobolus models serve us better.

From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Leach, Henry

The thrower of the discus was called discobolus.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

I infer from the attitude of Myron’s discobolus, as seen in our copies, that it was thrown without a preliminary run, and rather hurled standing.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.