gargantuan

English

Etymology

From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑɹˈɡæn.tʃu.ən/
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Adjective

gargantuan (comparative more gargantuan, superlative most gargantuan)

(obsolete) Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
Huge; immense; tremendous.
- 2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport‎:
  Some distant observers of the Scottish football scene reckon that all - all! - Gerrard has to do is beat Celtic to become a legend. Even if that was true - and, demonstrably, it is not - then it would be a gargantuan task all on its own.

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Translations

of the giant Gargantua or his appetite

French: gargantuesque (fr)
Italian: gargantuesco (it)
Japanese: ガルガンチュワの (Garuganchuwa no)

Polish: gargantuiczny (pl)
Romanian: gargantuesc

huge

Dutch: immens (nl)
Estonian: hiiglaslik, hiigelsuur
Finnish: valtava (fi), jättiläismäinen (fi), jättimäinen (fi), suunnaton (fi)
French: gargantuesque (fr)
Hungarian: rettentő nagy (hu), óriási (hu)
Indonesian: besar (id), raksasa (id), luar biasa
Italian: gigantesco (it), gargantuesco (it)

Japanese: 巨大な (きょだいな, kyodaina), 膨大な (ぼうだいな, bōdaina), 夥しい (おびただしい, obitadashī)
Kannada: ಬೃಹದಾಕಾರದ (kn) (bruhadākārada), ದೈತ್ಯಾಕಾರದ (kn) (daityākārada), ವಿಪರೀತ (kn) (viparīta), ದೊಡ್ಡ (kn) (doḍḍa), ರಾಕ್ಷಸಾಕಾರದ (kn) (rākṣasākārada)
Malayalam: വളരെ വലിയ (vaḷare valiya)
Polish: gigantyczny (pl), gargantuiczny (pl)
Romanian: imens (ro), enorm (ro), uriaș (ro), colosal (ro)
Russian: гига́нтский (ru) (gigántskij)
Swedish: gigantisk (sv), enorm (sv)

References

(etymology) Gourd, Pumpkin. See Budge Ref, p 803A; (from 'Rev 12'--Revue Egyptologique publiee sous la direction de MM Brugsch, F Chabas, and Eug. Revillout (vol I-XIV))

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