statuette

English

Borrowed from French statuette, from statue f +‎ -ette (feminine of the diminutive suffix -et).^[1] By surface analysis, statue +‎ -ette (diminutive suffix).

statuette (plural statuettes)

A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc.
- 1921, The Graphic, volume 103, page 444:
  […] may be discovered not far from a charming statuette of Queen Alexandra, and there is also the figurette of King George's elder brother.
- 2019 July 3, Filip, “LEGO Microfigures, Minifigures, and Nanofigures”, in Minifigures Blog‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 September 2021:
  Some statuettes are not monochrome but represent characters. That is why they are called nanofigures.

a small statue

Bulgarian: статуе́тка f (statuétka)
Catalan: estatueta (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小塑像 (xiǎo sùxiàng), 小雕像 (xiǎo diāoxiàng)
Crimean Tatar: eykelçik
Czech: soška (cs) f
Dutch: beeldje (nl) n
Esperanto: statueto
Estonian: pisiskulptuur
Finnish: pienoispatsas
French: statuette (fr) f
German: Statuette (de) f
Greek: αγαλματίδιο (el) n (agalmatídio)
Ancient Greek: ἀγαλμάτιον n (agalmátion)
Ido: statueto (io)
Irish: deilbhín m
Italian: statuetta f
Japanese: スタチュート
Latin: sigillum n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: statuett m

Nynorsk: statuett m
Polish: statuetka (pl) f, posążek (pl) m
Portuguese: estatueta (pt) f
Russian: статуэ́тка (ru) f (statuétka)
Spanish: estatuilla f
Swedish: statyett (sv)
Ukrainian: статуе́тка f (statuétka)

From statue +‎ -ette.

statuette f (plural statuettes)

statuette f