"huge" in seven languages
Meaninghuge
Spanish
enorme
/eˈnoɾme/
learned
French
énorme
/enɔʁm/
learned
Italian
enorme
/eˈnorme/
learned
Portuguese
enorme
/eˈnɔhmi/
learned
Romanian
enorm
/eˈnorm/
borrowed · French énorme
Catalan
enorme
/əˈnormə/
learned
English
huge
/hjudʒ/
other source · Old French ahuge, of unknown origin
English → ItalianhugeenormeNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: enormous, enormity, norm, normal.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
ĒNŌRMEM‘irregular, out of the norm (Ē + NORMA 'carpenter's square')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
ĒNŌRMIS was whatever fell outside the carpenter's square, the NORMA. The sisters use the learned word as their everyday 'huge'; English keeps it as enormous.
English relatives: enormous, enormity, norm, normal
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In a sentence
- esViven en una casa enorme.
- frIls habitent dans une maison énorme.
- itVivono in una casa enorme.
- ptEles moram numa casa enorme.
- roLocuiesc într-o casă enormă.
- caViuen en una casa enorme.
- enThey live in a huge house.
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