statuette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French statuette, from statue +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌstætjuˈɛt/, /ˌstætʃuˈɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

statuette (plural statuettes)

1. A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc.
   • 1921, The Graphic, volume 103, page 444:

     […] may be discovered not far from a charming statuette of Queen Alexandra, and there is also the figurette of King George's elder brother.

   • 2019 July 3, Filip, “LEGO Microfigures, Minifigures, and Nanofigures”, in Minifigures Blog‎^[1]:

     Some statuettes are not monochrome but represent characters. That is why they are called nanofigures.

Translations

a small statue

• Bulgarian: статуе́тка f (statuétka)
• Catalan: estatueta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Crimean Tatar: eykelçik
• Czech: soška (cs) f
• Dutch: beeldje (nl) n
• Esperanto: statueto
• Finnish: pienoispatsas
• French: statuette (fr) f
• German: Statuette (de) f
• Greek: αγαλματίδιο (el) n (agalmatídio)

  Ancient: ἀγαλμάτιον n (agalmátion)

• Ido: statueto (io)
• Irish: deilbhín m
• Italian: statuetta f
• Japanese: スタチュート
• Latin: sigillum n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: statuett m

  Nynorsk: statuett m

• Polish: statuetka (pl) f, posążek (pl) m
• Portuguese: estatueta (pt) f
• Russian: статуэ́тка (ru) f (statuétka)
• Spanish: estatuilla f
• Swedish: statyett (sv)
• Ukrainian: статуе́тка f (statuétka)

See also

• figurine

French

Etymology

From statue +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.tɥɛt/

Noun

statuette f (plural statuettes)

1. statuette

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

statuette f

1. plural of statuetta