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putto

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈpʊtəʊ/Sorted opttuStarts with PEnds with O0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A small winged child figure in Renaissance or Baroque art.

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • A second putto with a gallows in its hand cries at the judge's feet.
  • 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.

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