# gigante
## Galician
### Adjective

gigante m or f (plural gigantes, reintegrationist norm)
* reintegrationist spelling of xigante

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒiˈɡan.te/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ante
* Hyphenation: gi‧gàn‧te

### Adjective

gigante (plural giganti)
* (relational) giant; huge, gigantic, colossal
    Synonyms: enorme, gigantesco, colossale

### Noun

gigante m (plural giganti, feminine gigantessa)
* giant
    Synonym: colosso
    Antonym: nano

#### Derived terms

* giganteggiare
* gigantesco
* gigantismo
* gigantista
* gigantografia
* gigantomachia
* ingigantire
* slalom gigante
* subgigante

## Latin
### Noun

gigante
* ablative singular of gigāns

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡiː.ɡɑn.te/, [ˈɡiː.ɣɑn.te]

### Noun

gīgante
* dative singular of gīgant

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʒiˈɡɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʒiˈɡɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʒiˈɡɐ̃.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʒiˈɡɐ̃.tɨ/ [ʒiˈɣɐ̃.tɨ]
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
* Hyphenation: gi‧gan‧te

### Adjective

gigante m or f (plural gigantes)
* huge; gigantic
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grande

#### Antonyms

* See Thesaurus:grande

### Noun

gigante m (plural gigantes, feminine giganta, feminine plural gigantas)
* giant (mythical human)
* (sometimes offensive) giant (a very tall person)
    Synonym: (Brazil, offensive) poste
    Antonyms: anão, baixinho, nanico, duende
* giant (one of the Gigantes of Greek mythology)

#### Derived terms

* gigantear
* gigânteo
* gigantesco
* gigantismo

### Further reading

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

## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* ghigante

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒiˈɡante/

### Adjective

gigante (plural gigantes)
* huge, giant, gigantic

### Noun

gigante m (plural gigantes)
* giant

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xiˈɡante/ [xiˈɣ̞ãn̪.t̪e]
* Rhymes: -ante
* Syllabification: gi‧gan‧te

### Adjective

gigante m or f (masculine and feminine plural gigantes)
* giant, gigantic

### Noun

gigante m (plural gigantes, feminine giganta, feminine plural gigantas)
* giant
* juggernaut

#### Derived terms

* agigantar
* alca gigante
* aro gigante
* avispón gigante asiático
* calamar gigante
* cardo gigante
* carpintero gigante
* focha gigante
* gigante azul
* gigante gaseoso
* gigante roja
* gigantesco
* gigantez
* gigantismo
* manta gigante
* martín gigante neotropical
* nutria gigante
* orquídea gigante
* perejil gigante
* ruibarbo gigante

#### Descendants

* → Cebuano: higante
* → Tagalog: higante

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10