gargantuan
/ɡɑːˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/ · adj
Meaning
- Huge; immense; tremendous.
- Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
- Alternative letter-case form of gargantuan.
Etymology / origin
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”).
- garganta(Spanish)→
- Gargantua(French)→
- gargantuan (English)
- Relations: der, der
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