Meaning

1 senses
  1. A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub.

    Putto, Putte, Amorette

    пу́ттоpútto

    пу́ттоpútto

Translations

4 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
representation of a small, naked, often winged child:
Русский
By meaning 1
representation of a small, naked, often winged child:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
representation of a small, naked, often winged child:

Origin

Borrowed from Italian putto (“cupid, putto; boy”), from Latin putus (“boy”), a variant of

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”).

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Forms

plural: putti

See also

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