statue

See also:Statueandstatué

English

Etymology

FromOld Frenchstatue,fromLatinstatua,derived fromstatuō(“set up or erect”).Doubletofstatua.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio(US):

  (file)

Noun

statue(pluralstatues)

Astatueof adetective

1. Athree-dimensionalwork ofart,usually representing a person or animal, usually created bysculpting,carving,molding,orcasting.
   • c.1591–1595(date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene iii]:

     I will raise herstatuein pure gold.

   • 2017October 8, “Confederacy”, inLast Week Tonight with John Oliver,season 4, episode26,John Oliver(actor), via HBO:

     It’s true, Robert E. Lee was opposed tostatuesof people like Robert E. Lee! So any city that decides to keep astatueof him should, at the very least, add a speech bubble saying, “You know, I specifically told you all not to do this.”!

2. (dated)Aportrait.
   • a.1876,Philip Massinger,Mart and Mansion:

     The young lady just then would have formed a graceful model for astatueof Attention

Hypernyms

• image,sculpture,simulacrum

Hyponyms

• bust,figurine

Derived terms

• human statue
• living statue
• statued
• statuelike
• statuesque
• talking statue

Related terms

• statuary
• statuette

Translations

three-dimensional work of art

• Afrikaans:standbeeld
• Albanian:statujë(sq)f,shtatore(sq)f
• Arabic:تِمْثالm(timṯāl),دُمْيَةf(dumya)

  Egyptian Arabic:تمثالm(temsāl)

• Armenian:արձան(hy)(arjan),(of a man)անդրի(hy)(andri)
• Asturian:estatuaf
• Azerbaijani:heykəl(az)
• Balinese:arca,togog
• Basque:estatua
• Belarusian:ста́туяf(státuja)
• Bengali:মূর্তি(bn)(murti)
• Bhojpuri:मुर्ती(murtī)
• Bikol Central:pararangpan
• Braj:मूरतf(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:ⴰⵙⴻⴱⴷⴰⴷm(asebdad)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Điêu tượng(diu¹zoeng⁶),Tố tượng(sou³zoeng⁶)

  Hakka:Điêu tượng(tiâu-siong),Tố tượng(chok-siong)

  Hokkien:Điêu tượng(zh-min-nan)(tiau-siōng),Tố tượng(sok-siǒng)

  Mandarin:Điêu tượng(zh)(diāoxiàng),Tố tượng(zh)(sùxiàng)

• Chuukese:nios
• Coptic:ⲙⲏⲓⲛⲓm(mēini)
• Corsican:statua(co)f
• Cree:ᐊᔨᓯᓂᐦᑳᐣ(ayisinihkaan)
• Czech:socha(cs)f
• Danish:statuec
• Dutch:standbeeld(nl)n
• Egyptian:(twtm),(ẖntjm)
• Elfdalian:statym
• Esperanto:statuo
• Estonian:kuju(et)
• Faroese:standmyndf
• Fijian:vakatākarakara
• Finnish:kuvapatsas,patsas(fi)
• French:statue(fr)f
• Galician:estatua(gl)f
• Georgian:ქანდაკება(ka)(kandaḳeba),სტატუა(sṭaṭua)
• German:Statue(de)f,Standbild(de)n
• Greek:άγαλμα(el)n(ágalma)

  Ancient:ἄγαλμαn(ágalma),(of a human)ἀνδριάςm(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),मुर्तीf(murtī),मूरत(hi)f(mūrat)
• Hungarian:szobor(hu)
• Icelandic:styttaf
• Ido:statuo(io)
• Ilocano:estátua
• Indonesian:patung(id)
• Irish:dealbh(ga)f,íomháf
• Italian:statua(it)f
• Japanese:Tượng(ja)(ぞう, zō),Điêu tượng(ja)(ちょうぞう, chōzō),Tố tượng(ja)(そぞう, sozō)(clay)
• Javanese:

  Carakan:ꦉꦕ(jv)(reca)

  Rumi:reca(jv)

• K'iche':atz(Classical)
• Kabardian:сын(kbd)(sən)
• Kannada:ಪ್ರತಿಮೆ(kn)(pratime)
• Kazakh:мүсін(müsın)
• Khmer:រូបចំលាក់(ruup chɑm leak),រូប(km)(ruup)
• Korean:조상( điêu tượng )(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:statujaf
• Limburgish:standjsbeildjn
• Lingala:ekekoclass7/8
• Lithuanian:statulaf
• Luxembourgish:Statuf
• Macedonian:ста́туаf(státua),кипm(kip)
• Malagasy:sary vongana(mg)
• Malay:patung(ms)
• Malayalam:പ്രതിമ(ml)(pratima)
• Maltese:statwaf,varaf
• Maori:pakoko
• Marathi:पुतळाm(putḷā)
• Mirandese:státuaf
• Mongolian:хөшөө(mn)(xöšöö)
• Montagnais:innitsheuan
• Neapolitan:statolaf
• Northern Sami:bázzi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:statuem

  Nynorsk:statuem

• Occitan:estatua(oc)f
• Odia:ମୂର୍ତି(murti)
• Ojibwe:mazinichigan
• Old English:anlīcnesf
• Old South Arabian:𐩮𐩡𐩣𐩬(ṣlmn)
• 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
• Rapa Nui:mo'ai
• Romagnol:stêtuvaf
• Romanian:statuie(ro)f,statuă(ro)f
• Romansch:statuaf
• Russian:ста́туя(ru)f(státuja)
• Samogitian:statolaf
• Sanskrit:प्रतिमा(sa)f(pratimā)
• Scottish Gaelic:buinnef,ìomhaighf
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:статуаf,кипm

  Roman:statua(sh)f,kip(sh)m

• Shan:ႁုၼ်ႇႁၢင်ႈ(shn)(hùn hāang)
• Sicilian:stàtua(scn)f
• Sinhalese:පිළිමය(piḷimaya)
• Slovak:sochaf
• Slovene:kip(sl)m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian:statuaf,postawaf

• Spanish:estatua(es)f
• Sundanese:patung
• Swahili:sanamuclass9/10
• 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:སྐུ་འདྲ(sku 'dra),འདྲ་སྐུ('dra sku),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:ста́туяf(státuja)
• Urdu:مجسمہm(mujasma)
• Uyghur:ھەيكەل(heykel)
• Uzbek:haykal(uz)
• Vietnamese:tượng(vi)
• Volapük:magot(vo)
• Welsh:statudm,cerflunm
• West Frisian:stânbyld(fy)n
• Yiddish:סטאַטועf(statue)
• Zazaki:heykel

portrait—seeportrait

Verb

statue(third-person singular simple presentstatues,present participlestatuing,simple past and past participlestatued)

1. (transitive)To form a statue of; to make into a statue.
   • 1623,Owen Feltham,Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:

     The whole man becomes as ifstatuedinto stone and earth.

Anagrams

• astute

Danish

Noun

statuec(singular definitestatuen,plural indefinitestatuer)

1. statue

Inflection

Declension ofstatue

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	statue	statuen	statuer	statuerne
genitive	statues	statuens	statuers	statuernes

References

• “statue”inDen Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

FromOld Frenchstatue,fromLatinstatua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/sta.ty/

• Audio;“une statue”:

  (file)

Noun

statuef(pluralstatues)

1. statue

Derived terms

• statue de la Liberté

Related terms

• statuaire

Verb

statue

1. inflection ofstatuer:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
   2. second-personsingularimperative

Further reading

• “statue”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Anagrams

• tuâtes

Italian

Noun

statuef

1. pluralofstatua

Anagrams

• astute

Latin

Verb

statue

1. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperativeofstatuō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

FromLatinstatua.

Noun

statuem(definite singularstatuen,indefinite pluralstatuer,definite pluralstatuene)

1. astatue

Related terms

• statuett

References

• “statue”inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

FromLatinstatua.

Noun

statuem(definite singularstatuen,indefinite pluralstatuar,definite pluralstatuane)

1. astatue

Related terms

• statuett

References

• “statue”inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.