sculptura

See also: sculptură

Latin

Etymology

From sculpō (“carve”) +‎ -tūra.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [skʊɫpˈtuː.ra]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [skulpˈt̪uː.ra]

Noun

sculptūra f (genitive sculptūrae); first declension

the act of cutting out or carving
a sculpture, a figure carved or cut out

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sculptūra	sculptūrae
genitive	sculptūrae	sculptūrārum
dative	sculptūrae	sculptūrīs
accusative	sculptūram	sculptūrās
ablative	sculptūrā	sculptūrīs
vocative	sculptūra	sculptūrae

Descendants

→ Catalan: escultura
→ Corsican: scultura
→ Dutch: sculptuur
→ English: sculpture
→ French: sculpture
→ Galician: escultura
→ Italian: scultura
→ Lombard: scultura
→ Mirandese: scultura
→ Norman: stchulptuthe
→ Piedmontese: scultura
→ Portuguese: escultura
→ Romanian: sculptură
→ Russian: скульпту́ра (skulʹptúra)
→ Spanish: escultura

References

“sculptura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
sculptura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“sculptura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“sculptura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin