gigante

gigante m or f (plural gigantes, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xigante

• “gigante” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Learned borrowing from Latin gigās, from Ancient Greek γίγᾱς (gígās, “giant”).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈɡan.te/

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• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: gi‧gàn‧te

gigante m or f (plural giganti)

1. (relational) giant; huge, gigantic, colossal

   Synonyms: enorme, gigantesco, colossale

gigante m (plural giganti, feminine gigantessa)

1. giant

   Synonym: colosso

   Antonym: nano

gigante

1. ablative singular of gigāns

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡiː.ɡɑn.te/, [ˈɡiː.ɣɑn.te]

gīgante

1. dative singular of gīgant

Learned borrowing from Latin gigantem, from Ancient Greek γίγᾱς (gígās, “giant”).

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
• Hyphenation: gi‧gan‧te

gigante m or f (plural gigantes)

1. huge; gigantic

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grande

• See Thesaurus:grande

gigante m (plural gigantes, feminine giganta, feminine plural gigantas)

1. giant (mythical human)
2. (sometimes offensive) giant (a very tall person)

   Synonym: (Brazil, offensive) poste

   Antonyms: anão, baixinho, nanico, duende

3. giant (one of the Gigantes of Greek mythology)

• “gigante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• ghigante

Learned borrowing from Latin gigās, from Ancient Greek γίγᾱς (gígās, “giant”).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈɡante/

gigante (plural gigantes)

1. huge, giant, gigantic

gigante m (plural gigantes)

1. giant

Learned borrowing from Latin gigās, from Ancient Greek γίγᾱς (gígās, “giant”). Cognate with English giant.

• IPA^(key): /xiˈɡante/ [xiˈɣ̞ãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: gi‧gan‧te

gigante m or f (masculine and feminine plural gigantes)

1. giant, gigantic

gigante m (plural gigantes, feminine giganta, feminine plural gigantas)

1. giant
2. juggernaut

• → Cebuano: higante
• → Tagalog: higante

• “gigante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024