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statue

English

Etymology

From Old French statue, from Latin statua, derived from statu? (set up or erect).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?stæt?.u?/, /?stæt.ju?/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?stæt?u/

Noun

statue (plural statues)

  1. A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
  2. (dated) A portrait.
    • a. 1876, Philip Massinger, Mart and Mansion
      The young lady just then would have formed a graceful model for a statue of Attention

Hypernyms

  • image, sculpture, simulacrum

Hyponyms

  • bust, figurine

Derived terms

  • statued
  • statuelike
  • statuesque

Related terms

  • statuary
  • statuette

Translations

Verb

statue (third-person singular simple present statues, present participle statuing, simple past and past participle statued)

  1. (transitive) To form a statue of; to make into a statue.
    • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
      The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.

Anagrams

  • astute

Danish

Noun

statue c (singular definite statuen, plural indefinite statuer)

  1. statue

Inflection

References

  • “statue” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French statue, from Latin statua.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sta.ty/

Noun

statue f (plural statues)

  1. statue

Derived terms

  • statue de la Liberté

Related terms

  • statuaire

Further reading

  • “statue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • tuâtes

Italian

Noun

statue f

  1. plural of statua

Anagrams

  • astute

Latin

Verb

statue

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of statu?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin statua

Noun

statue m (definite singular statuen, indefinite plural statuer, definite plural statuene)

  1. a statue

Related terms

  • statuett

References

  • “statue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin statua

Noun

statue m (definite singular statuen, indefinite plural statuar, definite plural statuane)

  1. a statue

Related terms

  • statuett

References

  • “statue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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pasticcio

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasticcio. Doublet of pastiche.

Noun

pasticcio (plural pasticcios)

  1. A medley; an olio.
    • 1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain, 1775 and 1776
      On our first entrance into the palace, which is a pasticcio of Saracenic, Conventual, and Grecian architecture, I was much taken with the principal front of the inner-court; a piece of as good Morisco work as any I had yet seen.
  2. (art) An artwork that directly imitates the work of another artist or artists.
  3. (art) A falsified work of art, such as a vase or statue made up of parts of original works, with missing parts supplied.

Related terms

  • pastichio

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pasticium (compare French pastis), from Late Latin pasta (dough, pastry cake, paste), from Ancient Greek ????? (pastá).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pas?tit.t??o/
  • Hyphenation: pa?stìc?cio

Noun

pasticcio m (plural pasticci)

  1. (cooking) pie, pasty
  2. (figuratively, often in the plural) mess, confusion
  3. (architecture) relief
  4. pastiche
  5. jam

Derived terms

  • pasticcino
  • pasticciotto

Verb

pasticcio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pasticciare

Further reading

  • pasticcio on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it

Anagrams

  • piccatosi, piccosità, posticcia, psicotica, spicciato

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