statuette

Borrowed from French statuette, from statue f +‎ -ette (feminine of the diminutive suffix -et).^[1] By surface analysis, statue +‎ -ette (diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˌstætjuˈɛt/, /ˌstætʃuˈɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

statuette (plural statuettes)

1. A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc.
   • 1921, The Graphic, volume 103, page 444:

     […] may be discovered not far from a charming statuette of Queen Alexandra, and there is also the figurette of King George's elder brother.

   • 2019 July 3, Filip, “LEGO Microfigures, Minifigures, and Nanofigures”, in Minifigures Blog‎^[1]:

     Some statuettes are not monochrome but represent characters. That is why they are called nanofigures.

• figurine

From statue +‎ -ette.

• IPA^(key): /sta.tɥɛt/

statuette f (plural statuettes)

1. statuette

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

statuette f

1. plural of statuetta