Where does “sculpture” come from?
sculpture (Middle English) comes from Old French sculpture, from Latin sculptura, from Latin sculpere, from Latin sculpo, from Latin scalpo, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kel(H)p-, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kelH-, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kel- — to bend, crook; bent, crooked; leg, heel, knee,...
Ancestry of “sculpture”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | sculpture | — |
| 2 | Latin | sculptura | the act of cutting out or carving; a sculpture, a... |
| 3 | Latin | sculpere | present active infinitive of sculpō; carve |
| 4 | Latin | sculpo | I carve, chisel; I fashion by sculpting, sculpt |
| 5 | Latin | scalpo | I scratch; I carve or engrave |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kel(H)p- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kelH- | to cut; to split, to separate |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kel- | to bend, crook; bent, crooked; leg, heel, knee,... |
Words derived from “sculpture”
- sculpture
- sculptured
- sculptural
- sculpturesque
- sculpturally
- unsculptured
- liposculpture
- photosculpture
- sculpturelike
- insculptured
- sculpturesquely
- macrosculpture
- sculpturable
- sculpturesqueness
- sculpturist
- resculpture
- microsculptured
- microsculpture
- morphosculpture
- sculpturer
- ultrasculpture
- photosculptural
- microsculptural
- unsculptural