a grandezza naturale

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “at natural size”.

Adjective

a grandezza naturale (invariable)

  1. life-size, full-scale
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      McRaven avrebbe sovrinteso alla costruzione di un modello a grandezza naturale del complesso edilizio di Abbottabad...
      McRaven would oversee the construction of a full-scale model of the Abbottabad compound...
      (literally, “McRaven would have supervised the construction of a full-scale model of the Abbottabad building complex...”)
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