Translation
to sculpt, to carve
Word origin
From Latin sculpere, to carve or cut out, whose past participle sculptus gives the p and t that survive in every European descendant. The Latin verb originally meant to scratch or scrape, which is honest about how the work actually proceeds.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- sculpere
- English cognates
- sculpt, sculpture, sculptor
Examples
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He sculpted an angel out of white marble.
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She learned to carve in wood before touching stone.
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The statue was carved from a single stone.
The derived noun got here first. , a sculpture, sits at 2,895 in
this same chapter, fifty-one places ahead of the verb it is made from. That
happens more often than the frequency list makes it look: people talk about the
object far more than the act, so -aĵo outruns its verb. The base has now
landed, and the pair reads as one thing:
skulptaĵo is what leaves behind. The
sculptor is a o.
Against statuo. A is a shape, usually a
figure of a person, and it does not care how it was made - it can be cast, or
moulded, or printed. is a method: you start with more material than
you want and take some away. Marble, stone, wood and ice are all .
Clay is modelata, because you add rather than subtract, and calling that
is the commonest slip.
It takes both an object and a material. : . The matters, because says where the
work happens rather than what it is made of, and both sentences are good
Esperanto meaning slightly different things. English blurs them into carve in
wood and never notices.
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