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Büste
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buste
German
thumb|Büste der Nofretete im Neuen Museum Berlin bust of Nefertiti in the Neues Museum, Berlin
Etymology 1
The word was borrowed from de it busto and de fr buste in the 18th century:Friedrich Kluge, revised by Elmar Seebold: Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. 24th, checked through and expanded edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2001, 978-3-11-017473-1, p. 163. More precisely, at the beginning of the 18th century the de Busto and de Buste were borrowed from de it busto, and since the 2nd half of the 18th century, under influence of de fr buste which was also borrowed from Italian, the German word Büste was applied in general use. Further details about the origin are not certain. The Italian word might be from de la bustum funeral pyre, burial mound, presuming that la bustum in the sense of en tomb could denote a figural representation of the person deceased.
In the sense of “female breast, bosom” it is applied in general use since the middle of the 19th century as a probable new borrowing from de fr buste “idem”.
Pronunciation
de /ˈbʏstə/ /byːstə/Max Mangold and Dudenredaktion: Duden Aussprachewörterbuch. In: Der Duden in zwölf Bänden. 6th edition. Volume 6, Dudenverlag, Mannheim/Leipzig/Wien/Zürich 2005, 978-3-411-04066-7, p. 225.Eva-Maria Krech, Eberhard Stock, Ursula Hirschfeld, Lutz Christian Anders et al.: Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch: Mit Beiträgen von Walter Haas, Ingrid Hove, Peter Wiesinger. 1st edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2009, 978-3-11-018202-6, p. 393.
de ʏstə yːstə 2
de Büs te
de De-Büste.ogg
Noun
f
de art bust (sculptural portrayal of a person′s head and shoulders)
de eine Büste aus Marmor, Bronze, Gips a bust made of marble, bronze, plaster (of Paris)
de eine Büste aufstellen, in Stein meißeln to erect a bust, to chisel a bust into stone
de eine Büste bekränzen, mit Lorbeer umwinden to crown a bust with a wreath, to wreathe a bust with laurel
1891, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: Angela Borgia. Novelle. 1st edition, Leipzig: H. Haessel, (GoogleBooks; retrieved October 14, 2015), p. 140:
de Denn die Büsten der sieben römischen Könige standen auf ehernen Säulen längs den Wänden. For the busts of the seven Roman kings were placed on metal pillars along the walls.
de anatomy bust (the breast and upper thorax of a woman)
de Brust Busen
de eine gut geformte, gut entwickelte Büste a well shaped, well formed bust
de ein Kleid mit ausgearbeiteter Büste a dress with a carved out bust
de tailoring, dressmaking (tailor′s, dressmaker′s) dummy
de Schneiderbüste Schneiderpuppe
de ein Kleid über die Büste ziehen to put/slip a dress on the dummy
de ein Kleid nach der Büste abstecken to fit/pin a dress with the help of a dummy
Declension
f
Derived terms
de bust (sculptural portrayal of a person′s head and shoulders) Bronzebüste Büstenpfeiler Cäsarenbüste Frauenbüste Gedenkbüste Gipsbüste Marmorbüste Porträtbüste,Portraitbüste
de bust (the breast and upper thorax of a woman) Büstenhalter<t:brassiere><g:m>
de dummy Kleiderbüste Schneiderbüste
Etymology 2
de
Pronunciation
de /ˈbʏstə/
Proper noun
toponym
de village incorporated in the town of town/Bismark (Altmark) s/Saxony-Anhalt c/Germany
Further reading
Büste (Bismark) de
References
de Sculpture