putto.
A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub.
Meaning & usage
A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub.
Where this word comes from
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.
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