# statua
## English
### Etymology

From Latin statua. Doublet of statue.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈstatʃʊə/, /ˈstatjʊə/

### Noun

statua (plural statuas or statuae)
* (now rare, archaic) A statue. [from 15th c.]
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## Corsican
### Noun

statua f (plural statue)
* statue

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: statuas, statuât

### Verb

statua
* third-person singular past historic of statuer

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin statua.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsta.tu.a/
* Rhymes: -atua
* Hyphenation: stà‧tu‧a
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

statua f (plural statue, diminutive statuétta or statuina)
* statue

#### Hyponyms

* figura, monumento, scultura, simulacro

#### Related terms

* statuario

### References

* ↑ statua in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* astuta

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

statua f (genitive statuae); first declension
* a statue, especially one made of metal

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Derived terms

* statuāria
* statuārius
* staticulum

#### Related terms

* statūmen
* statuō
* stō

#### Descendants

* Asturian: estatua
* Catalan: estàtua
* Corsican: statua
* Galician: estatua
* Italian: statua
* Occitan: estatua
* → Old French: statue
** → English: statue
** French: statue
* Portuguese: estátua
* Romanian: statuie, statuă
* Russian: статуя (statuja)
* Sicilian: stàtua
* Spanish: estatua

### References

* “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, 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

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin statua.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /staˈtu.a/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ua
* Syllabification: sta‧tu‧a

### Noun

statua f
* (sculpture) statue (three-dimensional work of art)
    Synonym: posąg

#### Related terms

* statuetka

### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French statuer.

### Verb

a statua (third-person singular present statuează, past participle statuat) 1st conjugation
* to rule, to determine (through a law or statute)