statue

See also: Statue and statué

English

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statue

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old French statue, from Latin statua, derived from statuō (“set up or erect”). Doublet of statua.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt͡ʃ.uː/
  • (without the yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt.juː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt͡ʃu/

  • Audio (US):

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /sʈatʃ(j)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.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     I will raise her statue in pure gold.

   • 2017 October 8, “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

     It’s true, Robert E. Lee was opposed to statues of people like Robert E. Lee! So any city that decides to keep a statue of him should, at the very least, add a speech bubble saying, “You know, I specifically told you all not to do this.”!

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

• human statue
• living statue
• statued
• statuelike
• statuesque
• talking statue

Related terms

• statuary
• statuette

Translations

three-dimensional work of art

Afrikaans: standbeeld Albanian: statujë (sq) f, shtatore (sq) f Arabic: تِمْثال m (timṯāl), دُمْيَة f (dumya) Egyptian Arabic: تمثال m (temsāl) Armenian: արձան (hy) (arjan), (of a man) անդրի (hy) (andri) Asturian: estatua f Azerbaijani: heykəl (az) Balinese: arca, togog Bashkir: һәйкәл (həykəl) Basque: estatua Belarusian: ста́туя f (státuja) Bengali: মূর্তি (bn) (murti) Bhojpuri: मुर्ती (murtī) Bikol Central: pararangpan Braj: मूरत f (mūrat) Breton: delwenn (br) f Bulgarian: ста́туя (bg) f (státuja) Burmese: ရုပ်ထု (ruphtu.), ရုပ်တု (my) (ruptu.) Catalan: estàtua (ca) f Cebuano: estatuwa Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵙⴻⴱⴷⴰⴷ m (asebdad) Chinese: Cantonese: 雕像 (diu1 zoeng6), 塑像 (sou3 zoeng6) Hakka: 雕像 (tiâu-siong), 塑像 (chok-siong) Hokkien: 雕像 (zh-min-nan) (tiau-siōng), 塑像 (sok-siǒng) Mandarin: 雕像 (zh) (diāoxiàng), 塑像 (zh) (sùxiàng) Chuukese: nios Coptic: ⲙⲏⲓⲛⲓ m (mēini) Corsican: statua (co) f Cree: ᐊᔨᓯᓂᐦᑳᐣ (ayisinihkaan) Czech: socha (cs) f Danish: statue c Dutch: standbeeld (nl) n Egyptian: (twt m), (ẖntj m) Elfdalian: staty m Esperanto: statuo Estonian: kuju (et) Faroese: standmynd f Fijian: vakatākarakara Finnish: kuvapatsas, patsas (fi) French: statue (fr) f Galician: estatua (gl) f Georgian: ქანდაკება (ka) (kandaḳeba), სტატუა (sṭaṭua) German: Statue (de) f, Standbild (de) n Greek: άγαλμα (el) n (ágalma) Ancient: ἄγαλμα n (ágalma), (of a human) ἀνδριάς m (andriás) Greenlandic: inuusaliaq Gujarati: પ્રતિમા (gu) f (pratimā) Haitian Creole: estati Hawaiian: kiʻi, kiʻi kālai ʻia Hebrew: פֶּסֶל (he) m (pésel) Hindi: प्रतिमा (hi) f (pratimā), मुर्ती f (murtī), मूरत (hi) f (mūrat), मुजस्समा (hi) m (mujassamā) Hungarian: szobor (hu) Icelandic: stytta f Ido: statuo (io) Ilocano: estátua Indonesian: patung (id) Irish: dealbh (ga) f, íomhá f Italian: statua (it) f Japanese: 像 (ja) (ぞう, zō), 彫像 (ja) (ちょうぞう, chōzō), 塑像 (ja) (そぞう, sozō) (clay) Javanese: Carakan: ꦉꦕ (jv) (reca) Rumi: reca (jv) K'iche': atz (Classical) Kabardian: сын (kbd) (sən) Kannada: ಪ್ರತಿಮೆ (kn) (pratime) Kazakh: мүсін (müsın) Khmer: រូបចំលាក់ (ruup cɑm lĕək), រូប (km) (ruup), រូបឆ្លាក់ (ruup chlak) Korean: 조상(彫像) (ko) (josang), 조각상(彫刻像) (jogaksang), 상(像) (ko) (sang) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: peykel (ku) m, heykel (ku) m, senem (ku) m, pût (ku) m, kelwaş (ku) m Kyrgyz: статуя (ky) (statuya), айкел (ky) (aykel) Lao: ຮູບປັ້ນ (hūp pan) Latin: statua (la) f Latvian: statuja f Limburgish: standjsbeildj n Lingala: ekeko class 7/8 Lithuanian: statula f Luxembourgish: Statu f Macedonian: ста́туа f (státua), кип m (kip) Malagasy: sary vongana (mg) Malay: patung (ms) Malayalam: പ്രതിമ (ml) (pratima) Maltese: statwa f, vara f Maori: pakoko Marathi: पुतळा m (putḷā) Mirandese: státua f Mongolian: Cyrillic: хөшөө (mn) (xöšöö), баримал (mn) (barimal) Montagnais: innitsheuan Neapolitan: statola f Northern Sami: bázzi Norwegian: Bokmål: statue m Nynorsk: statue m Occitan: estatua (oc) f Odia: ମୂର୍ତି (murti) Ojibwe: mazinichigan Old English: anlīcnes f Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩡𐩣𐩬 (ṣlmn) Ottoman Turkish: هیكل (heykel) Papiamentu: estatua Parthian: 𐭐𐭕𐭊𐭓 (ptkr) (ptkr) Pashto: مجسمه f (mojasema), هيکل m (haykal) Persian: Iranian Persian: تَنْدیس (tandis), مُجَسَّمِه (mojassame), پِیْکَرِه (peykare), هِیْکَل (heykal) (rare) Polish: posąg (pl) m, statua (pl) f Portuguese: estátua (pt) f Rapa Nui: mo'ai Romagnol: stêtuva f Romanian: statuie (ro) f, statuă (ro) f Romansch: statua f Russian: ста́туя (ru) f (státuja), извая́ние (ru) n (izvajánije) Samogitian: statola f Sanskrit: प्रतिमा (sa) f (pratimā) Scottish Gaelic: buinne f, ìomhaigh f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ста̑туа f, ки̑п m Roman: stȃtua (sh) f, kȋp (sh) m Shan: ႁုၼ်ႇႁၢင်ႈ (shn) (hùn hāang) Sicilian: stàtua (scn) f Sikkimese: སྐུ (sku) Sinhalese: පිළිමය (piḷimaya) Slovak: socha f Slovene: kip (sl) m Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: statua f, postawa f Spanish: estatua (es) f Sundanese: patung Swahili: sanamu (sw) class 9/10 Swedish: staty (sv) c, stod (sv) c Tagoi: istatuwa Tajik: ҳайкал (tg) (haykal), муҷассама (mujassama) Tamil: சிலை (ta) (cilai), உருவம் (ta) (uruvam) Tatar: һәйкәл (tt) (häykäl) Telugu: ప్రతిమ (te) (pratima), విగ్రహం (te) (vigrahaṁ) Thai: รูปปั้น (rûup-bpân) Tibetan: སྐུ་འདྲ (sku 'dra), འདྲ་སྐུ ('dra sku), སྐུ་བརྙན (sku brnyan) Tigrinya: ሓወልቲ (ḥawälti) Turkish: heykel (tr), yontu (tr), kurçak (tr) (or korçak; which may mean 'doll' as well) Turkmen: heýkel Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎍𐎎 (ṣlm) Ukrainian: ста́туя f (státuja) Urdu: مُجَسَّمَہ m (mujassama), بُت m (but) Uyghur: ھەيكەل (heykel) Uzbek: haykal (uz) Vietnamese: tượng (vi) (像) Volapük: magot (vo) Welsh: statud m, cerflun m West Frisian: stânbyld (fy) n Yiddish: סטאַטוע f (statue) Zazaki: heykel

portrait — see portrait

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

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

statue

Wikipedia ^da

Noun

statue c (singular definite statuen, plural indefinite statuer)

1. statue

Inflection

Declension of statue

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	statue	statuen	statuer	statuerne
genitive	statues	statuens	statuers	statuernes

References

• “statue” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French statue, from Latin statua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.ty/

• Audio; “une statue”:

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

statue f (plural statues)

1. statue

Derived terms

• statue de la Liberté

Related terms

• statuaire

Verb

statue

1. inflection of statuer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “statue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• tuâtes

Italian

Noun

statue f

1. plural of statua

Anagrams

• astute

Latin

Verb

statue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of statuō

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

statue

Wikipedia ^no

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

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

statue

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

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.