figurine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French figurine.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɪɡ(j)əˈɹin/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɪɡəˈɹin/

Noun

figurine (plural figurines)

1. A small carved or molded figure; a statuette.
   • 2009 January 2, Lucy Mangan, “Anti-obesity advert is sweet and easy to digest”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Galvanised by this knowledge, the figurine family take to exercise and healthy eating in the park, forming themselves into the key words "Eat" (better), "Move" (more) and "Live" (longer) of the government's urgings and soon the municipal landscape is filled with other happy, healthier families who, incidentally, look even more delicious en masse.

   • 2017, Isabelle Vella Gregory, “35. Mediterranean—Sardinia”, in Timothy Insoll, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines, Oxford University Press, page 808:

     While figurines were an integral part of Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age life, they disappear from society until the later Nuragic period. […] The lack of figurines is a conscious choice, as is the decision to produce over 500 bronze figurines (bronzetti) in phases III and IV of the Nuragic period.

Translations

a small carved or molded figure

• Bulgarian: статуетка f (statuetka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小塑像 (zh) (xiǎo sùxiàng), 人形 (zh) (rénxíng)

• Finnish: figuriini
• French: figurine (fr) f, statuette (fr) f
• German: Figürchen (de)
• Greek: αγαλματίδιο (el) n (agalmatídio)

  Ancient: ἀγαλμάτιον n (agalmátion)

• Hungarian: szobrocska (hu), nipp (hu)
• Italian: statuetta f
• Japanese: フィギュア (figyua)
• Latin: sigillum n
• Middle English: popet
• Ojibwe: mazinichigan
• Polish: statuetka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estatueta (pt) f
• Romanian: statuetă (ro) f, figurină (ro) f
• Russian: статуэ́тка (ru) f (statuétka), фигу́рка (ru) f (figúrka)
• Spanish: figura (es)
• Vietnamese: bức tượng nhỏ

Further reading

• figurine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From figure +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.ɡy.ʁin/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

figurine f (plural figurines)

1. figurine
2. (games) miniature

Further reading

• “figurine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

figurine f

1. plural of figurina

Romanian

Noun

figurine f pl

1. plural of figurină