stature

stature

English

Etymology

From Old French stature, from Latin statūra.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt͡ʃ.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt͡ʃ.ɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ætʃə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: stat‧ure

Noun

stature (countable and uncountable, plural statures)

1. A person or animal's natural height when standing upright.
2. Respect (social standing) coming from achievement or development.
   • 2021 March 28, Phil McNulty, “Albania 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Mount's cool finish from Kane's pass after Raheem Sterling intercepted Berat Djimsiti's pass was another illustration of his growing stature and Chelsea's rising star must surely be a certain starter when England open their Euro 2020 finals campaign against Croatia at Wembley on 13 June.

3. (obsolete) Statue.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IV, scene ii:

     The golden ſtature of their feathered bird
     That ſpreads her wings vpon the city wals,
     Shall not defend it from our battering ſhot.

Translations

a person or animal's natural height when standing upright

Azerbaijani: boy (az) Bashkir: буй (buy) Bulgarian: ръст (bg) (rǎst), височина (bg) (visočina) Catalan: estatura (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 身高 (zh) Galician: estatura f, talla f German: Körpergröße (de) f, Statur (de) f Hungarian: termet (hu), magasság (hu), testmagasság (hu) Latin: statūra f Maori: hanga Polish: (of a person) wzrost (pl) m Romanian: statură (ro) f Russian: рост (ru) m (rost)

respect coming from achievement or development

Bulgarian: вели́чие (bg) (velíčie), велича́вост (veličávost) Catalan: talla (ca) f Galician: talla f Hungarian: elismertség, kaliber (hu), formátum (hu) Polish: wysoka pozycja f Russian: кали́бр (ru) m (kalíbr), масшта́б (ru) m (masštáb)

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Translations to be checked

Arabic: (please verify) قَامَة‎ f (qāma) Italian: (please verify) statura (it) f Macedonian: (please verify) стас m (stas) Spanish: (please verify) estatura (es)

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “stature”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Sautter, Steuart, astuter, rutates

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French

Noun

stature f (plural statures)

1. stature (height)

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

stature f

1. plural of statura

Anagrams

• sturate, stutare, stuterà, testura, turaste, urtaste

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Latin

Participle

statūre

1. vocative masculine singular of statūrus

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Middle English

Noun

stature (plural statures)

1. stature (height, tallness)

Descendants

• English: stature