statuette

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French statuette, from statue f +‎ -ette (feminine of the diminutive suffix -et). By surface analysis, statue +‎ -ette (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌstætjuˈɛt/, /ˌstætʃuˈɛt/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • 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:
      Some statuettes are not monochrome but represent characters. That is why they are called nanofigures.

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References

  1. ^ “statuette, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

French

Etymology

From statue +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

Noun

statuette f (plural statuettes)

  1. statuette

Further reading

Italian

Noun

statuette f

  1. plural of statuetta
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