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Meteor

A streak of light from space debris burning in the atmosphere.

The Greek roots

μετέωρον
metéōron
thing high in the air

Literally: raised above

The story of the word

To the Greeks anything 'lofted up' in the sky was a metéōron — which is also why the study of weather is meteorology.

In a sentence

A bright meteor split the August sky.

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