Etymology

gigabarrel

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Today it means: A unit of volume equal to a thousand million barrels. Full definition →

English barrel ← Middle English barel ← Old French bari
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The story

  1. Ancient GreekΓίγας (Gígas)
  2. Ancient Greekγίγας (gígas)
  3. Englishgiga-
  4. Old Frenchbari
  5. Middle Englishbarel
  6. Englishbarrel
  7. English todaygigabarrel

From giga- + barrel.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.