enorm

From Middle French enorme. See enormous.

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈnɔː(ɹ)m/

enorm (comparative more enorm, superlative most enorm)

1. (obsolete) enormous
   • 1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Philemon Holland, The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC:

     The Alani […] wander […] in […] enorme and huge cantons

• “enorm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Menor, meron, moner, more'n, morne, morné

Borrowed from French énorme, from Latin ēnōrmis.

• IPA^(key): [eˈnɒˀm]

enorm

1. enormous

enorm

1. enormously, extremely, very

• “enorm” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch enorm, from Middle French énorme, from Latin ēnōrmis.

• IPA^(key): /eːˈnɔrm/

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• Hyphenation: enorm
• Rhymes: -ɔrm

enorm (not comparable)

1. enormous

enorm

1. enormously, extremely

Borrowed from French énorme, from Latin ēnōrmis.

• IPA^(key): /eˈnɔʁm/

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enorm (strong nominative masculine singular enormer, comparative enormer, superlative am enormsten)

1. enormous

   Synonym: ungeheuer

2. (colloquial, emphatic) very, so

   Synonyms: ungeheuer; see also Thesaurus:sehr

   enorm viel ― so many

   • 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 434:

     „Enorm,“ sagte Hans Castorp, „enorm anschaulich ist sie gemalt, die Haut. Ich glaube, ähnlich gut gemalte ist mir nie vorgekommen. Man meint die Poren zu sehen.“

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “enorm” in Duden online
• “enorm” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from French énorme and German enorm.

• IPA^(key): /eˈnoʀm/, [əˈnoʁm]

enorm (masculine enormen, neuter enormt, comparative méi enorm, superlative am enormsten)

1. enormous

From Latin ēnōrmis via French énorme.

enorm (neuter singular enormt, definite singular and plural enorme)

1. enormous

• “enorm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin ēnōrmis via French énorme.

• IPA^(key): /eːnɔrm/

enorm (neuter enormt, definite singular and plural enorme, comparative meir enorm, superlative mest enorm)

1. huge, enormous

   Dei fekk etter kvart eit enormt ansvar.

   They eventually got a huge responsibility.

• enormt

• “enorm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French énorme, from Latin ēnōrmis.

• IPA^(key): /eˈnorm/

enórm m or n (feminine singular enormă, masculine plural enormi, feminine and neuter plural enorme)

1. enormous

• enormitate

enórm

1. enormously

From French énorme, from Latin ēnōrmis.

enorm (comparative mer enorm, superlative mest enorm)

1. enormous, immense, vast

• ormen, romen