art
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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars "art". Displaced native Middle English liste (“art”) (from Old English list).
Noun
art (countable and uncountable; plural arts)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (uncountable) Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
- (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
- There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
- (uncountable) Activity intended to make something special.
- (uncountable) A re-creation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value judgments.
- (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
- (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
- (uncountable, printing) Artwork.
- (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
- (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 217:
- A physician was immediately sent for; but on the first moment of beholding the corpse, he declared that Elvira's recovery was beyond the power of art.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 217:
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (Human effort): mundacity, nature, subsistence
Quotations
- 2005, "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror." -July Harper's, Lynn Freed
- 2009, "Visual art is a subjective understanding or perception of the viewer as well as a deliberate/conscious arrangement or creation of elements like colours, forms, movements, sounds, objects or other elements that produce a graphic or plastic whole that expresses thoughts, ideas or visions of the artist." - Extended Essay on Visual Art, Alexander Brouwer
Derived terms
terms derived from art
Translations
human effort
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conscious production or arrangement
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activity
re-creation
study
aesthetic value
artwork
field or category of art
nonscientific branch of learning
skill
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Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Old English eart (“(thou) art”), second-person singular present indicative of beon-wesan, from Proto-Germanic *ar-t (“(thou) art", originally, "(thou) becamest”), second-person singular preterite indicative form of *iraną (“to rise, be quick, become active”), from Proto-Indo-European *er-, *or(w)- (“to lift, rise, set in motion”). Cognate with Faroese ert (“art”), Icelandic ert (“art”), Old English earon (“are”), from the same preterite-present Germanic verb. More at are.
Verb
art
See also
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Anagrams
Albanian
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Etymology
From Middle Low German art.
Noun
art c (singular definite arten, plural indefinite arter)
Inflection
Inflection of art
French
Etymology
From Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.
Pronunciation
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audio (file)
Noun
art m (plural arts)
- art (something pleasing to the mind)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Latvian
Art
Art ar traktoru
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic, from Proto-Balto-Slavic, from Proto-Indo-European *ar-, *arə-, *h₂erh₃- (“to plow”), from *h₁er- (“sparse; to crumble, to fall to pieces”), whence also the verb irt (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian árti, Old Prussian artoys (“plowman”) (cf. Lithuanian artójas), Old Church Slavonic орати (orati), Russian dialectal or dated орать (orát’), Belarusian араць (aráts’), Ukrainian орати (oráty), Bulgarian ора (orá), Czech orati, Polish orać, Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (arjan), Old Norse erja, Hittite ẖarra- (“to crush; (passive form) to disappear”), ẖarš- (“to tear open; to plow”), Ancient Greek ἀρόω, Latin arō.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA: [âɾt]
Verb
art tr., 1st conj., pres. aru, ar, ar, past aru
- to plow (to prepare (land) for sowing by using a plow)
- art zemi — to plow the land, earth
- art tīrumu, lauku — to plow a field
- art dārzu — to plow a garden
- art kūdraino augsni — to plow the peaty soil
- art ar traktoru — to plow with a tractor
- papuvi ara divi traktori — two tractors plowed the fallow (land)
- iziet art agri no rīta — to go plowing early in the morning
- rudenī, rugāju arot, sekoju Jurim pa vagu un sarunājos — in autumn, while (he was) plowing the stubble field, I followed Juris along the furrows and talked
Conjugation
conjugation of art
| INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) |
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| Present (tagadne) |
Past (pagātne) |
Future (nākotne) |
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| 1st pers. sg. | es | aru | aru | aršu | — |
| 2nd pers. sg. | tu | ar | ari | arsi | ar |
| 3rd pers. sg. | viņš, viņa | ar | ara | ars | lai ar |
| 1st pers. pl. | mēs | aram | arām | arsim | arsim |
| 2nd pers. pl. | jūs | arat | arāt | arsiet, arsit |
ariet |
| 3rd pers. pl. | viņi, viņas | ar | ara | ars | lai ar |
| CONJUNCTIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | PARTICIPLES (divdabji) | ||||
| Present | arot | Present Active 1 (Adj.) | arošs | ||
| Past | esot aris | Present Active 2 (Adv.) | ardams | ||
| Future | aršot | Present Active 3 (Adv.) | arot | ||
| Imperative | lai arot | Present Active 4 (Obj.) | aram | ||
| CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) | Past Active | aris | |||
| Present | artu | Present Passive | arams | ||
| Past | būtu aris | Past Passive | arts | ||
| DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) | NOMINAL FORMS | ||||
| Indicative | (būt) jāar | Infinitive (nenoteiksme) | art | ||
| Conjunctive 1 | esot jāar | Negative Infinitive | neart | ||
| Conjunctive 2 | jāarot | Verbal noun | aršana | ||
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns. 1992, 2001. Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca. Rīga: AVOTS. ISBN 9984700127.
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *artos (“bear”) (compare Cornish arth, Welsh arth), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”).
Noun
art m
Synonyms
Turkish
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