stature

English

Etymology

From Middle English stature, from Old French stature, from Latin statūra.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt͡ʃ.ə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt͡ʃ.ɚ/

  • Audio (Southern California):

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• Hyphenation: stat‧ure
• Rhymes: -ætʃə(ɹ)

Noun

stature (countable and uncountable, plural statures)

1. A person or animal's natural height when standing upright.
2. Respect (social standing) coming from achievement or development.
   • 2021 March 28, Phil McNulty, “Albania 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Mount's cool finish from Kane's pass after Raheem Sterling intercepted Berat Djimsiti's pass was another illustration of his growing stature and Chelsea's rising star must surely be a certain starter when England open their Euro 2020 finals campaign against Croatia at Wembley on 13 June.

3. (obsolete) Statue.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene ii:

     The golden ſtature of their feathered bird
     That ſpreads her wings vpon the city wals,
     Shall not defend it from our battering ſhot.

Translations

a person or animal's natural height when standing upright

• Azerbaijani: boy (az)
• Bashkir: буй (buy)
• Bulgarian: ръст (bg) (rǎst), височина (bg) (visočina)
• Catalan: estatura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 身高 (zh) (shēngāo)

• Galician: estatura f, talla (gl) f
• German: Körpergröße (de) f, Statur (de) f
• Hungarian: termet (hu), magasság (hu), testmagasság (hu)
• Latin: statūra f
• Maori: hanga
• Polish: (of a person) wzrost (pl) m
• Romanian: statură (ro) f
• Russian: рост (ru) m (rost)
• Spanish: estatura (es) f

respect coming from achievement or development

• Bulgarian: вели́чие (bg) (velíčie), велича́вост (veličávost)
• Catalan: talla (ca) f
• Galician: talla (gl) f
• Hungarian: elismertség (hu), kaliber (hu), formátum (hu)
• Polish: wysoka pozycja f
• Russian: кали́бр (ru) m (kalíbr), масшта́б (ru) m (masštáb)
• Spanish: estatura (es) f, talla (es) f, valía (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} قَامَة f (qāma)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} statura (it) f
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} стас m (stas)

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “stature”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• rutates, Sautter, Steuart, astuter, Rattues

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

stature f (plural statures)

1. stature (height)

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

stature f

1. plural of statura

Anagrams

• sturate, stutare, stuterà, testura, turaste, urtaste

Latin

Participle

stātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of stātūrus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• statur, statour

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French stature, from Latin statūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staˈtiu̯r(ə)/

Noun

stature (plural statures)

1. stature (height, tallness)

Descendants

• English: stature

References

• “statūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.