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Putto vs Potto - What's the difference?

putto | potto |

As a noun putto

is a representation, in a work of art (especially renaissance or baroque), of a small, naked, winged child; a cherub.

As a proper noun potto is

a village in north yorkshire.

putto

English

Noun

(putti)
  • A representation, in a work of art (especially Renaissance or Baroque), of a small, naked, winged child; a cherub.
  • *2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 14:
  • *:The walls have ranks of white marble niches capped by huge marble scallops, and flanked by urns and flowers, drapes and putti .

    • Synonyms

    * amoretto

    See also

    * cupid

    Anagrams

    * ----

    potto

    English

    (wikipedia potto)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small primate,
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 147:
  • *:The forest hangs round them like a theater curtain, mist rising from the water, half-drowned things – jackals, monkeys, pottos , bushpigs – wading along with them, looking dazed and bearish.

    • Derived terms

    * (false potto), (vern, Martin's false potto) ()