giant
English
/ˈdʒaɪ.ənt/, /ˈdʒaɪnt/
noun
Definitions
- A mythical human of very great size.
- (mythology) Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- A very tall and large person.
- A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
- (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
- (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- A very large organisation.
- A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
- jotun
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English geaunt derived from Old French geant derived from Latin *gagās, gigās derived from Ancient Greek γίγας (giant, plural gigantes giant).
Origin
Ancient Greek
γίγας
Gloss
giant, plural gigantes giant
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- forest English
- genet English
- giant forest genet English
- giant slalom English
- giant squid English
- giantdom English
- giantess English
- gianthood English
- giantin English
- giantism English
- giantize English
- giantkiller English
- giantkind English
- giantlike English
- giantling English
- giantlore English
- giantly English
- giantness English
- giantry English
- giantship English
- giga- English
- hypergiant English
- killer English
- lore English
- parallel giant slalom English
- slalom English
- squid English
- subgiant English
- supergiant English
- *gagās Latin
- gigantem Latin
- gigās Latin
- gigās, gigas, gigantis Latin
- gigászi Hungarian
- gigante Italian
- géant French
- gigante Spanish, Castilian
- gigantesco Spanish, Castilian
- gigantez Spanish, Castilian
- gigantón Spanish, Castilian
- γίγας Ancient Greek
- gigant Norwegian Bokmål
- gigant Norwegian Nynorsk
- geaunt Middle English
- gigant Czech
- geant Old French
- gíga- Icelandic
- higante Cebuano
- gigants Latvian
- higante Tagalog
- гигант Bulgarian
- higante Yogad
- jaean Pijin