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Latin
Etymology
From sculpō (“carve”) + -tūra.
Pronunciation
Noun
sculptūra f (genitive sculptūrae); first declension
- the act of cutting out or carving
- a sculpture, a figure carved or cut out
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “sculptura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sculptura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sculptura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sculptura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin