Tomb and monument of Ilaria del Carretto by Jacopo della Quercia, c.
It may have been derived from the same Indo-European root as the Sanskrit word "putra" (meaning "boy child", as opposed to "son"), Avestan puθra-, Old Persian puça-, Pahlavi (Middle Persian) pus and pusar, all meaning "son", and the New Persian pesar "boy, son". Today, in Italian, putto means either toddler winged angel or, rarely, toddler boy.
The Italian word comes from the Latin word putus, meaning "boy" or "child". The more commonly found form putti is the plural of the Italian word putto. A putto representing a cupid is also called an amorino (plural amorini) or amoretto (plural amoretti). Originally limited to profane passions in symbolism, the putto came to represent the sacred cherub (plural cherubim), and in Baroque art the putto came to represent the omnipresence of God. Venditrice di amorini, fresco from Villa Arianna, Stabiae ( National Archaeological Museum, Naples)Ī putto ( Italian: plural putti ) is a figure in a work of art depicted as a chubby male child, usually naked and sometimes winged.
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