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Giganto Giant La Accusative Plural Mi Null Wikt

The word "giganto" means giant, particularly in mythology. It is influenced by German, Spanish, and Italian words.

La vorto "giganto" signifas giganton, precipe en mitologio. Ĝi estas inspirita de germanaj, hispanaj kaj italaj vortoj.

Frequency Rank of Word 4951
Word giganto
Meanings
    (
    mythology
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mythology
    )
    giant
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giant
Pinyin null
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Example Sentences
Wiktionary Entry
Gigant
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gigant#German
,
Spanish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language
gigante
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gigante#Spanish
,
Italian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language
gigante
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gigante#Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
    (
    key
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
    )    : /ɡiˈɡanto/
  • Audio
    		(
    file
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:LL-Q143_(epo)-Lepticed7-giganto.wav
    )
  • Hyphenation: gi‧gan‧to

Noun

giganto (accusative singular

giganton
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giganton#Esperanto
, plural
gigantoj
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gigantoj#Esperanto
, accusative plural
gigantojn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gigantojn#Esperanto
)

  1. (
    mythology
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mythology
    )
    giant
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giant
    • 1906,
      Kabe (translator)
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Bein
      , “La senditoj de morto”, in Elektitaj Fabeloj‎
      [1]
      http://www.steloj.de/esperanto/gfabeloj/senditoj_de_morto.html
      , translation of Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm:
      "Kio?" diris la giganto, "vi hometo, kiun mi povus dispremi inter la fingroj, vi volas bari al mi la vojon?"
      "What?" said the giant, "you runt, who I could crush between my fingers, you want to block my way?"

Derived terms

  • giganta
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giganta#Esperanto
  • gasgiganto
     /
    gasogiganto

See also

  • grandulo
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grandulo#Esperanto
     (“giant (person of great size)”)

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