statua

See also: stàtua

English

Etymology

From Latin statua.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) 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: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , III.2.1.i:
      whilst he played, he put his ring upon the finger of Venus' statua, which was thereby, made in brass  […]

French

Pronunciation

Verb

statua

  1. third-person singular past historic of statuer

Italian

statua

Etymology

From Latin statua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstatwa/

Noun

statua f (plural statue)

  1. statue

Hyponyms

Anagrams

Latin

statua Liviae Drusillae (statue of Livia Drusilla)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsta.tu.a/, [ˈsta.tʊ.a]
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

Noun

statua f (genitive statuae); first declension

  1. a statue, especially one made of metal

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative statua statuae
genitive statuae statuārum
dative statuae statuīs
accusative statuam statuās
ablative statuā statuīs
vocative statua statuae

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Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
  • statua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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

Polish

Etymology

From Latin statua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsta.tu.a/, (colloquial) /staˈtu.a/

Noun

statua f

  1. statue

Declension

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