statua
See also: stàtua
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstatʃʊə/, /ˈstatjʊə/
Noun
statua (plural statuas)
- (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, 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
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstatwa/
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
From statuō (“I erect, set up, cause to stand”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsta.tu.a/, [ˈsta.tʊ.a]
Audio (Classical) (file)
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
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)
- to set up a statue in some one's honour: statuam alicui ponere, constituere
- statua in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /staˈtu.a/
Declension
Synonyms
Related terms
Further reading
- statua in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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