# putto
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian putto (“cupid, putto; boy”), from Latin putus (“boy”), a variant of pūsus (“(little) boy”), from puer (“boy, lad; child”), from Proto-Italic *puweros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little; smallness”).
The plural form putti is also borrowed from Italian putti.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpʊtəʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈpʊtoʊ/, [-ɾoʊ]
* Hyphenation: put‧to

### Noun

putto (plural putti or (rare) puttos or (rare) puttoes)
* (art) A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub.
** 1938, “1788: Piety Weeping at the Tomb of Benevolence, a Model of a Monument to be Erected in Whitechapel Church, to the Memory of Dr [Robert] Markham the Late Rector, at the Expence of His Parishioners”, in C[harles] F[rancis] Bell, editor, Annals of Thomas Banks, Sculptor, Royal Academician: […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: At the University Press, →OCLC, page 72:There is in the porch of the present church a tablet to Luke Flood (died 1818) which has much the appearance of having been made up of portions of earlier monuments. It is surmounted by a bas-relief of a winged boy holding an inverted torch. But not only is he a baby putto, not a youth, and without an urn, but the style and execution scarcely seem worthy of [Thomas] Banks even when not at his best.
** 1971, Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle, “Oil Sketches by 18th Century Italian Artists from New York Collections [GIOVANNI BATTISTA PITTONI [...] 22. The Crucifixion.]”, in The Eighteenth Century in Italy (Drawings from New York Collections; III), New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pierpont Morgan Library, →ISBN, page 333:The Carmelite scapulars held by the putto and young male saint on the right indicate that the altarpiece was intended for a church of the Carmelite order.
** 1973, “Analysis of Beauty: Etched and Engraved from Drawings, March 1753 [84: Plate I: Third State]”, in Sean Shesgreen, editor, Engravings by Hogarth: 101 Prints, New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN, column 1:A second putto with a gallows in its hand cries at the judge's feet.
** 1990, Oskar Bätschmann, “Deliverance – Destruction”, in Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting, London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, part I, page 62:In The Youth of Bacchus (illus. 51) [by Nicolas Poussin], a painting produced before 1630, the figures are arranged in a triangle. The young Bacchus is at the top, the putti lying on the ground and the feet of the sitting figures mark the base-line and the lower corner, while the sides are designated by the nymphs and satyrs.
** 1990, Kristine Koozin, “The Vanitas Still Life”, in The Vanitas Still Lifes of Harmen Steenwyck: Metaphoric Realism (Renaissance Studies; 1), Lewiston, N.Y., Queenston, Ont.: Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 25:The picture shows a putto who has just blown bubbles through a clay tube. He holds a scallop shell of soapy water and leans against a skull. [...] In picture and verse the imagery echoes classical and biblical metaphors for the brevity of a man's life. The fresh flower is in contrast to the dying tree like the putto as childhood innocence is opposed by the death's head.
** 2004, Richard [Alan] Fortey, “Up and Down”, in The Earth: An Intimate History, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN; Earth: An Intimate Portrait, 1st Vintage Books edition, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, November 2005, →ISBN, page 15:The walls [of Naples Cathedral] have ranks of white marble niches capped by huge marble scallops, and flanked by urns and flowers, drapes and putti.
** 2005, David Farrell Krell, “God’s Footstool”, in The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 160:Whatever the case, the evangelical animals are appreciably larger than the puttos of the painting. The animals gaze upward, their mouths gaping. They are cawing, bellowing, roaring out the Gospel. [...] Only the attendant puttos seem to be taking the divine afflatus or descent in stride.
** 2018, Claudia La Malfa, “Copies of Raphael’s Mythological Paintings in the Collection of Cardinal Ludovisi”, in Maddalena Bellavitis, editor, Making Copies in European Art 1400–1600: Shifting Tastes, Modes of Transmission, and Changing Contexts (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History; 286; Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History; 30), Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 347:A Galatea with Triton, 5 puttoes and 5 other figures, painted frame in fake marble and gilded, 12 palmi in height, copy of Raphael made by Caracci.

#### Hyponyms

* (putto representing Cupid or love): amoretto, amorino, cupid

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “putto, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2007; “putto, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* putto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* toput, tot up

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Italian putto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈputːo/, [ˈput̪ːo̞]
* Rhymes: -utːo
* Syllabification: put‧to

### Noun

putto
* putto, cherub

#### Declension

Possessive forms of putto (Kotus type 1*C/valo, tt-t gradation) :

#### Synonyms

* kerubi

### Further reading

* “putto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

### Anagrams

* pottu, potut, putot, tupot

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian putto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pu.to/

### Noun

putto m (plural puttos or putti)
* putto

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin pūtus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈput.to/
* Rhymes: -utto
* Hyphenation: pùt‧to

### Noun

putto m (plural putti)
* (art) putto, cherub, cupid
    Synonym: amorino
* (rare) child

#### Descendants

* → English: putto

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀧𑀼𑀢𑁆𑀢𑁄 (Brahmi script)
* पुत्तो (Devanagari script)
* পুত্তো (Bengali script)
* පුත‍්තො (Sinhalese script)
* ပုတ္တော or ပုတ္တေႃ or ပုတ်တေႃ (Burmese script)
* ปุตฺโต or ปุตโต (Thai script)
* ᨷᩩᨲ᩠ᨲᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
* ປຸຕ຺ໂຕ or ປຸຕໂຕ (Lao script)
* បុត្តោ (Khmer script)
* 𑄛𑄪𑄖𑄴𑄖𑄮 (Chakma script)

### Noun

putto m
* singular nominative of putta

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian putto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈputtɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uttɔ
* Syllabification: put‧to

### Noun

putto n or m animal
* (art) putto, cupid, cherub, amoretto
    Synonyms: amorek, kupidyn, kupido

#### Declension

Neuter declension:
Masculine animate declension:

### Further reading

* putto in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* putto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian putto.

### Noun

putto n (plural putti)
* (art) putto, cherub, cupid

#### Declension
### References

* putto in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN