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...”)