giant

• n. 巨人; 偉人; [動詞]巨大な動物
• adj.巨大な; 巨大な

ギガバイトと語源は同じ。

giant (n.)

c. 1300, "fabulous man-like creature of enormous size," from Old French geant, earlier jaiant "giant, ogre" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *gagantem (nominative gagas), from Latin gigas "a giant," from Greek Gigas (usually in plural, Gigantes), one of a race of divine but savage and monstrous beings (personifying destructive natural forces), sons of Gaia and Uranus, eventually destroyed by the gods. The word is of unknown origin, probably from a pre-Greek language. Derivation from gegenes "earth-born" is considered untenable.

In tat tyme wer here non hauntes Of no men bot of geauntes. [Wace's Chronicle, c. 1330]

It replaced Old English ent, eoten, also gigant (from Latin). The Greek word was used in Septuagint to refer to men of great size and strength, hence the expanded use in modern languages; in English of very tall and unusually large persons from 1550s; of persons who have any quality in extraordinary degree from 1530s. As a class of stars, from 1912. As an adjective from early 15c. Giant-killer is from 1726.

1. A giant wildcat is being hunted after 58 lambs were butchered.

大きな野良猫が58匹の子羊を捕殺した後、狩猟された。

2.The result has been a giant leap in productivity.

その結果、生産性が大幅に向上した。

3.Fewer than a thousand giant pandas still live in the wild.

1000匹未満のジャイアントパンダだけが野外で生活している。

4.A whole valley of boulders tossed higgledy-piggledy as though by some giant .

谷全体に巨石が転がり、まるで巨人が投げているかのようだ。

5.Overhead cranes were lifting giant sheets of steel.

高架クレーンが巨大な鋼板を持ち上げている。