Where the Romanian word “gigant” comes from
From Italian.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (s.m.):
Din it. gigante, lat. gigas, -ntis. Cf. germ. gigant.
→ Italian · DEX '96 - Wiktionary says
- Italian (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Italian gigante ← Latin gigās ← Ancient Greek γίγᾱς
- In film dialogue
- 12 times per million words · number 3,609 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 21 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 9.8 4.1 3.6 3.5 0.9 - Swap in a synonym
- uriaș (Hungarian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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