Gĭgās, antis, m., = Γίγας,
I a giant; usually in plur.: Gĭgantes , um, m., = Γίγαντες, the fabled sons of Earth and Tartarus , giants with snakes for legs , who stormed the heavens , but were smitten by Jupiter with lightning and buried under Aetna.—Sing. , Ov. P. 2, 10, 24; acc. giganta, Stat. Th. 5, 569; Mart. 9, 51, 6: gigantem, Vulg. Sirach, 47, 4.— Plur. , Ov. F. 5, 35; id. M. 1, 152; 5, 319; Hor. C. 2, 19, 22; Cic. N. D. 2, 28, 70: gigantum more bellare, id. de Sen. 2, 5; Hyg. Fab. praef. (cf. also Verg. G. 1, 278 sq.); Prop. 3, 5, 39 (dub.; Müll. nocentum, id. 4, 4, 39).—
II Deriv. Gĭgan-tēus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to the giants : bellum, Ov. Tr. 2, 71: sanguis, Verg. Cul. 27: triumphus, Hor. C. 3, 1, 7: tropaea, Ov. F. 5, 555: ora litoris, i. e. at Cumae , in Campania (where, according to the myth, the giants dwelt in the Phlegraean Fields, and fought with the gods), Prop. 1, 20, 9 (cf. Sil. 12, 143 sq.): genus, Vulg. Num. 13, 34.—
2 Transf., gigantic : corpus, Sil. 5, 436.