putto
Plural: putti, puttoes, puttos
Noun
- A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub.
- pl. -TI an infant boy in art
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 7
putto: valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordputto: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
putto: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
putto is a valid Words With Friends word