sculptura

See also: sculptură

Latin

Etymology

From sculpō (“carve”) +‎ -tūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /skulpˈtuː.ra/, [s̠kʊɫ̪pˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /skulpˈtu.ra/, [skulpˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

sculptūra f (genitive sculptūrae); first declension

1. the act of cutting out or carving
2. a sculpture, a figure carved or cut out

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sculptūra	sculptūrae
Genitive	sculptūrae	sculptūrārum
Dative	sculptūrae	sculptūrīs
Accusative	sculptūram	sculptūrās
Ablative	sculptūrā	sculptūrīs
Vocative	sculptūra	sculptūrae

Descendants

• → Catalan: escultura
• → Corsican: scultura
• → Dutch: sculptuur
• → English: sculpture
• → French: sculpture
• → Galician: escultura
• → Italian: scultura
• → Lombard: scultura
• → Mirandese: scultura
• → Norman: stchulptuthe
• → Piedmontese: scultura
• → Portuguese: escultura
• → Romanian: sculptură
• → Russian: скульпту́ра (skulʹptúra)
• → Spanish: escultura

References

• “sculptura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sculptura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sculptura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sculptura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin