statua

See also: stàtua

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin statua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstatʃʊə/, /ˈstatjʊə/

Noun

statua (plural statuas)

1. (now rare, archaic) A statue. [from 15th c.]
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:

     whilst he played, he put his ring upon the finger of Venus' statua, which was thereby, made in brass  […]

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: statuas, statuât

Verb

statua

1. third-person singular past historic of statuer

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Italian

statua

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin statua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstatwa/

Noun

statua f (plural statue)

1. statue

Hyponyms

• figura, monumento, scultura, simulacro

Related terms

• statuario

Anagrams

• astuta

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Latin

statua Liviae Drusillae (statue of Livia Drusilla)

Etymology

From statuō (“I erect, set up, cause to stand”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tu.a/, [ˈs̠t̪ät̪uä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tu.a/, [ˈst̪äːt̪uä]

• Audio (Classical):

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Noun

statua f (genitive statuae); first declension

1. a statue, especially one made of metal

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	statua	statuae
Genitive	statuae	statuārum
Dative	statuae	statuīs
Accusative	statuam	statuās
Ablative	statuā	statuīs
Vocative	statua	statuae

Synonyms

• (statue): imāgō, signum, simulācrum, effigiēs

Derived terms

• statuāria
• statuārius
• staticulum

Related terms

• statūmen
• statuō
• stō

Descendants

• Catalan: estàtua
• Corsican: statua
• English: statue
• French: statue
• Galician: estatua

• Italian: statua
• Romanian: statuie, statuă
• Russian: статуя (statuja)
• Sicilian: stàtua
• Spanish: estatua

References

• “statua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “statua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• statua in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• statua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set up a statue in some one's honour: statuam alicui ponere, constituere
    
  • to put an inscription on statues: statuas inscribere (Verr. 2. 69. 167)
    
• “statua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Polish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin statua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staˈtu.a/

Noun

statua f

1. statue

Declension

Declension of statua

	singular	plural
nominative	statua	statuy
genitive	statui/statuy	statui
dative	statui	statuom
accusative	statuę	statuy
instrumental	statuą	statuami
locative	statui	statuach
vocative	statuo	statuy

Synonyms

• posąg

Related terms

• statuetka

Further reading

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