"gigantomachy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /d͡ʒaɪɡænˈtɒməki/ Forms: gigantomachies [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Γιγαντομαχία (Gigantomakhía), from Γίγας (Gígas, “giant”) + μάχη (mákhē, “battle”) + -ια (-ia). Compare Titanomachy, Typhonomachy, centauromachy. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|grc|Γιγαντομαχία}} Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Γιγαντομαχία (Gigantomakhía), {{m|grc|Γίγας||giant}} Γίγας (Gígas, “giant”), {{m|grc|μάχη||battle}} μάχη (mákhē, “battle”), {{m|grc|-ια}} -ια (-ia), {{m|en|Titanomachy}} Titanomachy, {{m|en|Typhonomachy}} Typhonomachy, {{m|en|centauromachy}} centauromachy Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} gigantomachy (countable and uncountable, plural gigantomachies)
  1. (Greek mythology) The battle of the Giants (offspring of Gaia, according to Hesiod conceived from the spilt blood of Uranus) against the Olympian gods. Tags: Greek, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Greek mythology Translations (uprising of the Giants against the Olympian gods): gigantomakhia (Finnish), gigantomachie [feminine] (French), gigantomachia [feminine] (Italian), gigantomachia [feminine] (Polish), gigantomaquia [feminine] (Portuguese), gigantomahie [feminine] (Romanian), gigantomaquia [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-gigantomachy-en-noun-Iu1QzMki Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -machy Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 79 21 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -machy: 78 22 Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences Disambiguation of 'uprising of the Giants against the Olympian gods': 85 15
  2. (by extension) Any battle envisaged as being waged by giants against gods or against an established universal order. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-gigantomachy-en-noun-H7-b7szu
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Gigantomachy

Inflected forms

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