statue

See also: Statue and statué

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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Noun

statue (plural statues)

a statue of a detective

1. 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, [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, John Oliver (actor), via 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.”!

2. (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

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: 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 (bn) (murti)
• 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)

  Hokkien: 雕像 (zh-min-nan) (tiau-siōng), 塑像 (sok-siǒng)

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

• 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)

  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(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 (ms)
• Malayalam: പ്രതിമ (ml) (pratima)
• Maltese: statwa f, vara 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
• Odia: ମୂର୍ତି (murti)
• Ojibwe: mazinichigan
• Old English: anlīcnes f
• 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
• 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: 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: 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

Verb

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

1. (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.

Anagrams

• astute

Danish

Noun

statue c (singular definite statuen, plural indefinite statuer)

1. statue

Inflection

Declension of statue

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

References

• “statue” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French statue, from Latin statua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.ty/

• Audio: "une statue"

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Noun

statue f (plural statues)

1. statue

Derived terms

• statue de la Liberté

Related terms

• statuaire

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tuâtes

Italian

Noun

statue f

1. plural of statua

Anagrams

• astute

Latin

Verb

statue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of statuō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin statua.

Noun

statue m (definite singular statuen, indefinite plural statuer, definite plural statuene)

1. a statue

Related terms

• statuett

References

• “statue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin statua.

Noun

statue m (definite singular statuen, indefinite plural statuar, definite plural statuane)

1. a statue

Related terms

• statuett

References

• “statue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.