putto

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpʊtəʊ/
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• General-American: /ˈpʊtoʊ/
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• General-American: [-ɾoʊ]
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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.

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: пу́та (púta) — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Catalan: amoret — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Catalan: angelot — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Dutch: cherubijn — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Estonian: puto — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Finnish: putto — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Finnish: kerubi — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Georgian: პუტი (ṗuṭi) — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• German: Putto — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• German: Putte — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• German: Amorette — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Greek: αγγελούδι (angeloúdi) — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Hungarian: puttó — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Italian: putto — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Japanese: プット — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Korean: 푸토 (puto) — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Kyrgyz: путти (putti) — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Russian: пу́тто (pútto) — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Serbo-Croatian: путо — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Serbo-Croatian: puto — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Thai: พุตโต — representation of a small, naked, often winged child
• Ukrainian: пу́тто (pútto) — representation of a small, naked, often winged child