What is the Latin word for huge?

The usual Latin words for “huge” are immānis, vāstus, immēnsus; also ingēns, īnsānus, pecūnia. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“huge” in Latin

immānisimmense, enormous, huge, vast; brutal, inhuman, frightful, savage vāstusEmpty, unoccupied, i.e. waste, desert.; Desolate, deserted, made lonely.; Wasted by destruction, laid waste, ravaged, de immēnsusimmeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense ingēnshuge, vast, enormous; immoderate, exorbitant; extraordinary, unnatural īnsānusmad, insane, demented pecūniamoney; wealth; cash, ready money, liquid wealth praedaplunder, booty, pillage, spoils of war, property taken in war; prey, game taken in the hunt; gain, profit bēluabeast, monster; brute altitūdōheight (distance from bottom to top); depth; spiritual or emotional depth

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

huge

immanis: vastus (denote magnitude on its unfavorable, disagreeable side; vastus, as exceeding the usual size, colossal, with the accessory notion of fat; immanis, as reaching to the unnatural, monstrous, terrific; canis vasti corporis is an immense fat hound; belua immanis figura is a gigantic unnaturally big animal, as the elephant; so immanis corporis magnitudo: immanis is also “immense;” of money, booty, etc., pecuniae, praeda). (The words are found in this connection and order.) vastus et immanis (e.g., belua): immensus (litterally, immeasurable; immense, of any real or figurative extension, altitudo; sum of money, pecunia): ingens (unusually or extraordinarily great, of any extension; arbor; sum of money, pecunia: intellect, ingeninm. The derivation is “in” “not” and “gen” r. of gigno; hence it == ἄγονος, of things not born or produced, i. e., usually): insanus (mad; unreasonably great; e.g., pile of buildings, moles; mountains, montes). A huge mountain, mons in immensum editus. A huge mass, moles.

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What is the Latin word for huge?: The usual Latin words for “huge” are immānis, vāstus, immēnsus; also ingēns, īnsānus, pecūnia. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.