immane

Latin immānis.

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmeɪn/

immane (comparative more immane, superlative most immane)

1. (archaic) Very large; huge; vast.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:large

   • 1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network, spoken by Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty):

     There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.

2. (archaic) Monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     so immane a man

     The spelling has been modernized.

• immanely

• ammine

• IPA^(key): /imˈma.ne/
• Rhymes: -ane
• Hyphenation: im‧mà‧ne

immane (plural immani)

1. huge, immense, untold

   Synonyms: enorme, gigantesco, immenso, smisurato

2. dreadful, terrible

   Synonym: terribile

• immanità

• ammine, enimma

immāne

1. nominative/accusative neuter singular of immānis

immanē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of immaneō

• “immane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “immane”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• immane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.