when it stops right before the part it is named after?
2007-06-17 07:43:36 · 5 answers · asked by twinkle 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
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2007-06-17 07:46:22 · answer #1 · answered by trichild4eva 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It derives from the Latin word "bustum," a sepulchral monument representing the deceased person's head, neck and upper chest. Bustum has its origin in the Latin verb amburere, which means to "burn around or scorch." So, a bust didn't originally stop at the part it now usually excludes. I guess we can thank our ridiculously prudish Christian forebears for the virtual elimination of that part. They didn't want their delicate sensibilities offended, don't you know?
The custom of placing these on the monuments to the dead is said to have originated with the Etruscan custom of keeping the ashes of the dearly departed in an urn shaped like their living body. Hence came the origination of the word bust from amburere, a compound of ambi, meaning "around" + urere, meaning "to burn."
2007-06-17 08:28:17 · answer #2 · answered by MathBioMajor 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
French, buste
Italian, busto
The primary sense in Italian is 'trunk or upper portion of the body. The origin of the Romanic word has not been satisfactorily ascertained.
1. A piece of sculpture representing the head, shoulders and breast of a person.
That's from the Oxford English Dictionary
Some of them may not show the full breast because in men this part of the body is uninteresting and in women it is senstive.
That's from me.
2007-06-17 08:08:40 · answer #3 · answered by RF 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Latin word: bustum
Sepulchral monument.
2007-06-17 07:48:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i dont get it
2007-06-17 07:56:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋