statua

From Latin statua. Doublet of statue.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstatʃʊə/, /ˈstatjʊə/

statua (plural statuas or statuae)

1. (now rare, archaic) A statue. [from 15th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:

     whilst he played, he put his ring upon the finger of Venus' statua, which was thereby, made in brass  […]

statua f (plural statue)

1. statue

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• Homophones: statuas, statuât

statua

1. third-person singular past historic of statuer

From Latin statua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tu.a/^[1]
• Rhymes: -atua
• Hyphenation: stà‧tu‧a

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statua f (plural statue, diminutive statuétta or statuina)

1. statue

• figura, monumento, scultura, simulacro

• statuario

• statua in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• statua in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• astuta

From statuō (“I erect, set up, cause to stand”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tu.a/, [ˈs̠t̪ät̪uä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tu.a/, [ˈst̪äːt̪uä]

statua f (genitive statuae); first declension

1. a statue, especially one made of metal

First-declension noun.

• (statue): imāgō, signum, simulācrum, effigiēs

• statuāria
• statuārius
• staticulum

• statūmen
• statuō
• stō

• “statua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “statua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• statua in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• statua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set up a statue in some one's honour: statuam alicui ponere, constituere
    
  • to put an inscription on statues: statuas inscribere (Verr. 2. 69. 167)
    
• “statua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Learned borrowing from Latin statua.

• IPA^(key): /staˈtu.a/

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• Rhymes: -ua
• Syllabification: sta‧tu‧a

statua f

1. (sculpture) statue (three-dimensional work of art)

   Synonym: posąg

• statua in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• statua in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French statuer.

a statua (third-person singular present statuează, past participle statuat) 1st conj.

1. to rule, to determine (through a law or statute)