Etymology

supergiant

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Today it means: A very large star having a mass between 10 and 70 solar masses. Full definition →

English giant ← Latin super- ← Proto-Italic *super
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Englishgiant
  8. English todaysupergiant

From super- + giant.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.