big

Senso (English)

1. Of great size, large.
2. (informal) Of great size, large.
3. Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
4. (informal) Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
5. (informal) Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
6. (informal) Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
7. (informal) Adult; (of a child) older.
8. (informal,slang) Adult; (of a child) older.
9. (informal) Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
10. (informal) Important or significant.
11. Popular.
12. Populous.
13. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
14. Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
15. (informal) Enthusiastic (about).

large

great

enormous

be big

full-sized

important person

very big

fully grown

self-aggrandising

the oldest

grow large

unwieldy

elder brother

something big

fat meat

be wide

rather big

not light

fair-and-square

of import

real stuff

lump of rock

rank,

i & 3

beardown

honest-to-god

large quantity

Frequenza

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/bɪɡ/

Cognate with norvegese

Cognate with basso tedesco

Inherited from inglese medio

Cognate with norse antico

Cognate with inglese antico

Cognate with danese

Cognate with svedese

Inherited from inglese medio

Cognate with inglese antico

In summary

Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug. Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.

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