statue

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French statue, from Latin statua, derived from statuō (“set up or erect”).

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt͡ʃ.uː/, /ˈstæt.juː/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt͡ʃu/
Audio (US) (file)

NounEdit

statue (plural statues)

a statue of a detective

A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:
  I will raise her statue in pure gold.
- 2017 October 8, “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, HBO:
  It’s true, Robert E. Lee was opposed to statues of people like Robert E. Lee! So any city that decides to keep a statue of him should, at the very least, add a speech bubble saying, “You know, I specifically told you all not to do this.”!
(dated) A portrait.
- a. 1876, Philip Massinger, Mart and Mansion
  The young lady just then would have formed a graceful model for a statue of Attention

HypernymsEdit

image, sculpture, simulacrum

HyponymsEdit

bust, figurine

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

three-dimensional work of art

Afrikaans: standbeeld
Albanian: statujë (sq) f, shtatore (sq) f
Arabic: تِمْثال‎ m (timṯāl), دُمْيَة‎ f (dumya)
Egyptian Arabic: تمثال‎ m (temsāl)
Armenian: արձան (hy) (arjan), (of a man) անդրի (hy) (andri)
Asturian: estatua f
Azerbaijani: heykəl (az)
Balinese: arca, togog
Basque: estatua
Belarusian: ста́туя f (státuja)
Bengali: মূর্তি (mūrti)
Bikol Central: pararangpan
Braj: मूरत f (mūrat)
Breton: delwenn (br) f
Bulgarian: ста́туя (bg) f (státuja)
Burmese: ရုပ်ထု (ruphtu.), ရုပ်တု (my) (ruptu.)
Catalan: estàtua (ca) f
Cebuano: estatuwa
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵙⴻⴱⴷⴰⴷ m (asebdad)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 雕像 (diu¹ zoeng⁶), 塑像 (sou³ zoeng⁶)

Hakka: 雕像 (tiâu-siong), 塑像 (chok-siong)

Mandarin: 雕像 (zh) (diāoxiàng), 塑像 (zh) (sùxiàng)

Min Nan: 雕像 (zh-min-nan) (tiau-siōng), 塑像 (sok-siǒng)
Chuukese: nios
Coptic: ⲙⲏⲓⲛⲓ m (mēini)
Corsican: statua (co) f
Cree: ᐊᔨᓯᓂᐦᑳᐣ (ayisinihkaan)
Czech: socha (cs) f
Danish: statue c
Dutch: standbeeld (nl) n
Egyptian:

(twt m),

(ẖntj m)
Elfdalian: staty m
Esperanto: statuo
Estonian: kuju (et)
Faroese: standmynd f
Fijian: vakatākarakara
Finnish: kuvapatsas, patsas (fi)
French: statue (fr) f
Galician: estatua (gl) f
Georgian: ქანდაკება (kandaḳeba), სტატუა (sṭaṭua)
German: Statue (de) f, Standbild (de) n
Greek: άγαλμα (el) n (ágalma)
Ancient: ἄγαλμα n (ágalma), (of a human) ἀνδριάς m (andriás)
Greenlandic: inuusaliaq
Gujarati: પ્રતિમા (gu) f (pratimā)
Haitian Creole: estati
Hawaiian: kiʻi, kiʻi kālai ʻia
Hebrew: פֶּסֶל‎ (he) m (pésel)
Hindi: प्रतिमा (hi) f (pratimā), मुर्ती f (murtī), मूरत (hi) f (mūrat)
Hungarian: szobor (hu)
Icelandic: stytta f
Ido: statuo (io)
Ilocano: estátua
Indonesian: patung (id)
Irish: dealbh (ga) f, íomhá f
Italian: statua (it) f
Japanese: 像 (ja) (ぞう, zō), 彫像 (ja) (ちょうぞう, chōzō), 塑像 (ja) (そぞう, sozō) (clay)
Javanese:
Carakan: ꦉꦕ (jv) (reca)

Roman: reca (jv)
K'iche': atz (Classical)
Kabardian: сын (sən)
Kannada: ಪ್ರತಿಮೆ (kn) (pratime)
Kazakh: мүсін (kk) (müsın)
Khmer: រូបចំលាក់ (ruup chɑm leak), រូប (km) (ruup)
Korean: 조상(彫像) (ko) (josang), 조각상 (jogaksang), 상 (ko) (sang)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: peykel (ku) m, heykel (ku) m, senem (ku) m, pût (ku) m, kelwaş (ku) m
Kyrgyz: статуя (ky) (statuya), айкел (ky) (aykel)
Lao: ຮູບປັ້ນ (hūp pan)
Latin: statua (la) f
Latvian: statuja f
Limburgish: standjsbeildj n
Lingala: ekeko class 7/8
Lithuanian: statula f
Luxembourgish: Statu f
Macedonian: ста́туа f (státua), кип m (kip)
Malagasy: sary vongana (mg)
Malay: patung
Malayalam: പ്രതിമ (ml) (pratima)
Maltese: istatwa f
Maori: pakoko
Marathi: पुतळा m (putḷā)
Mirandese: státua f
Mongolian: хөшөө (mn) (xöšöö)
Montagnais: innitsheuan
Neapolitan: statola f
Northern Sami: bázzi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: statue m

Nynorsk: statue m
Occitan: estatua (oc) f
Ojibwe: mazinichigan
Old English: anlīcnes f
Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩡𐩣𐩬‎ (ṣlmn)
Oriya: ମୂର୍ତି (murti)
Ottoman Turkish: هیكل‎ (heykel)
Papiamentu: estatua
Parthian: 𐭐𐭕𐭊𐭓‎ (ptkr) (ptkr)
Persian: تندیس‎ (fa) (tandis), هیکل‎ (fa) (heykal) (rare)
Polish: posąg (pl) m, statua (pl) f
Portuguese: estátua (pt) f
Punjabi: मूति f
Rapa Nui: mo'ai
Romagnol: stêtuva f
Romanian: statuie (ro) f, statuă (ro) f
Romansch: statua f
Russian: ста́туя (ru) f (státuja)
Samogitian: statola f
Sanskrit: प्रतिमा (sa) f (pratimā)
Scottish Gaelic: buinne f, ìomhaigh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: статуа f, кип m

Roman: statua (sh) f, kip (sh) m
Shan: ႁုၼ်ႇႁၢင်ႈ (shn) (hùn hāang)
Sicilian: stàtua (scn) f
Sinhalese: පිළිමය (piḷimaya)
Slovak: socha f
Slovene: kip (sl) m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: statua f, postawa f
Spanish: estatua (es) f
Sundanese: patung
Swahili: sanamu class 9/10
Swedish: staty (sv) c, stod (sv) c
Tagoi: istatuwa
Tajik: ҳайкал (tg) (haykal), муҷассама (mujassama)
Tamil: சிலை (ta) (cilai), உருவம் (ta) (uruvam)
Telugu: ప్రతిమ (te) (pratima), విగ్రహం (te) (vigrahaṁ)
Thai: รูปปั้น (rûup-bpân)
Tibetan: འདྲ་སྐུ ('dra sku), འདྲ་གཞུགས ('dra gzhugs), སྐུ་འདྲ (sku 'dra), སྐུ་བརྙན (sku brnyan)
Tigrinya: ሓወልቲ (ḥawälti)
Turkish: heykel (tr), yontu (tr), kurçak (tr) (or korçak; which may mean 'doll' as well)
Turkmen: heýkel
Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎍𐎎 (ṣlm)
Ukrainian: ста́туя f (státuja)
Urdu: مجسمہ‎ m (mujasma)
Uyghur: ھەيكەل‎ (heykel)
Uzbek: haykal (uz)
Vietnamese: tượng (vi)
Volapük: magot (vo)
Welsh: statud m, cerflun m
West Frisian: stânbyld (fy) n
Yiddish: סטאַטוע‎ f (statue)
Zazaki: heykel

portrait — see portrait

VerbEdit

statue (third-person singular simple present statues, present participle statuing, simple past and past participle statued)

(transitive) To form a statue of; to make into a statue.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
  The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.