Etymology

figurine

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Today it means: A small carved or molded figure; a statuette. Full definition →

French figurine
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  1. French · borrowed fromfigurine
  2. English todayfigurine

Borrowed from French figurine, equivalent to figure + -ine.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.