The story
- Latin · derived fromgigans“giant”
- French · borrowed fromgigantisme
- English todaygigantism
From French gigantisme, from Latin gigans (“giant”).
Words from the same roots
Latingigans all →
giganticide
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
gigantism
Today it means: The quality or state of being gigantic; being of abnormally large size. Full definition →
French gigantisme ← Latin gigans