"putto" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpʊtəʊ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpʊtoʊ/ [General-American], [-ɾoʊ] [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-putto.wav [Southern-England] Forms: putti [plural], puttos [plural, rare], puttoes [plural, rare]
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. Etymology templates: {{circa2|1760|short=yes}} c. 1760, {{glossary|a.}} a., {{root|en|ine-pro|*peh₂w-}}, {{bor|en|it|putto|t=cupid, putto; boy}} Italian putto (“cupid, putto; boy”), {{der|en|la|putus|t=boy}} Latin putus (“boy”), {{m|la|pūsus|t=(little) boy}} pūsus (“(little) boy”), {{m|la|puer|t=boy, lad; child}} puer (“boy, lad; child”), {{der|en|itc-pro|*puweros}} Proto-Italic *puweros, {{der|en|ine-pro|*peh₂w-|t=few, little; smallness}} Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little; smallness”), {{glossary|plural}} plural, {{bor|en|it|putti}} Italian putti Head templates: {{en-noun|putti|s|es|pl2qual=rare|pl3qual=rare}} putto (plural putti or (rare) puttos or (rare) puttoes)
  1. (art) A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub. Wikipedia link: Pécs Cathedral, Saint Sebastian Categories (topical): Art Hyponyms: amoretto, amorino, cupid Translations (representation of a small, naked, often winged child): пу́та (púta) (Belarusian), amoret (Catalan), angelot [masculine] (Catalan), cherubijn [masculine] (Dutch), puto (Estonian), putto (Finnish), kerubi (Finnish), პუტი (ṗuṭi) (Georgian), Putto [masculine] (German), Putte [feminine] (German), Amorette [feminine] (German), αγγελούδι (angeloúdi) [neuter] (Greek), puttó (Hungarian), putto [masculine] (Italian), プット (Japanese), 푸토 (puto) (Korean), путти (putti) (Kyrgyz), пу́тто (pútto) (Russian), путо [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), puto [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), พุตโต (Thai), пу́тто (pútto) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-putto-en-noun-bjrTcsGv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: art, arts

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          "ref": "1990, Oskar Bätschmann, “Deliverance – Destruction”, in Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting, London: Reaktion Books, part I, page 62",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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, page 25",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Richard [Alan] Fortey, “Up and Down”, in The Earth: An Intimate History, London: HarperCollins; Earth: An Intimate Portrait, 1st Vintage Books edition, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, November 2005, page 15",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, David Farrell Krell, “God’s Footstool”, in The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, page 160",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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, →ISSN, page 347",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub."
      ],
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        "(art) A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub."
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        "Pécs Cathedral",
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      "ipa": "/ˈpʊtoʊ/",
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "púta",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "пу́та"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "amoret"
    },
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      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "cherubijn"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "puto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "putto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "kerubi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṗuṭi",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "პუტი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Putto"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Putte"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Amorette"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "angeloúdi",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "αγγελούδι"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "puttó"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "putto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "プット"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "puto",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "푸토"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
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      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "путти"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "pútto",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "пу́тто"
    },
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
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      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
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      "word": "puto"
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      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "พุตโต"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pútto",
      "sense": "representation of a small, naked, often winged child",
      "word": "пу́тто"
    }
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