The story
- Spanish · derived fromgarganta“throat”
- French · derived fromGargantua
- English todaygargantuan
From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.