ars
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
ars
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
See ar (“scar”).
NounEdit
ars n
Etymology 2Edit
See ar (“are”).
NounEdit
ars c
IrishEdit
VerbEdit
ars
Usage notesEdit
In the modern standard language, arsa + an is written together as arsan; in older usage the spelling ars an may also be found.
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *artis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥tís (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).
Cognates include Avestan 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀 (ərəta, “truth, right”), which in turn descends from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr̥tás, and Ancient Greek ἄρτι (árti, “just, exactly”). Related to arma.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ars f (genitive artis); third declension
- art, skill, craft, handicraft
- Synonyms: opus, opera, artificium
- 63 CE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Mōrālēs ad Lūcīlium 65.3:
- Omnis ars nātūrae imitātiō est.
- Every art is imitation of nature.
- Omnis ars nātūrae imitātiō est.
- trade, occupation, employment
- Synonym: artificium
- cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem
- Synonyms: dēceptiō, fraus, maleficium, perfidia, dolus, stratēgēma
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ars | artēs |
Genitive | artis | artium |
Dative | artī | artibus |
Accusative | artem | artēs artīs |
Ablative | arte | artibus |
Vocative | ars | artēs |
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Corsican: arte
- Extremaduran: arti
- Franco-Provençal: ârt
- → German: lege artis
- Italian: arte
- Ligurian: arte
- Lombard: aart
- Neapolitan: arte
- Old French: art
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Old Spanish:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: arti
- Sicilian: arti
- → Maltese: arti
- Venetian: arte
- → Albanian: art
- → Aromanian: artâ
- → Breton: arz
- → Cornish: art
- → Romanian: artă
ReferencesEdit
- “ars”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ars in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- ars in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2023) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- abstruse studies: studia, quae in reconditis artibus versantur (De Or. 1. 2. 8)
- (ambiguous) to have received a liberal education: optimis studiis or artibus, optimarum artium studiis eruditum esse
- to teach some one letters: erudire aliquem artibus, litteris (but erudire aliquem in iure civili, in re militari)
- system: ratio; disciplina, ratio et disciplina; ars
- (ambiguous) the rules of art; aesthetics: artis praecepta, or also simply ars
- to have no taste for the fine arts: abhorrere ab artibus (opp. delectari artibus)
- the art of painting: ars pingendi, pictura (De Or. 2. 16. 69)
- the art of sculpture: ars fingendi
- the dramatic art: ars ludicra (De Or. 2. 20. 84)
- the art of speaking; oratory: ars dicendi
- to fool a person thoroughly: omnibus artibus aliquem ludificari, eludere
- (ambiguous) to sleep soundly (from fatigue): arte, graviter dormire (ex lassitudine)
- (ambiguous) to reduce a thing to its theoretical principles; to apply theory to a thing: ad artem, ad rationem revocare aliquid (De Or. 2. 11. 44)
- (ambiguous) learning, scientific knowledge is flourishing: artium studia or artes vigent (not florent)
- (ambiguous) to be interested in, have a taste for culture: optimarum artium studio incensum esse
- (ambiguous) to have received a liberal education: optimis studiis or artibus, optimarum artium studiis eruditum esse
- (ambiguous) to know nothing of logic: disserendi artem nullam habere
- (ambiguous) theoretical, speculative philosophy: philosophia, quae in rerum contemplatione versatur, or quae artis praeceptis continetur
- (ambiguous) to systematise: ad artem redigere aliquid
- (ambiguous) to systematise: ad rationem, ad artem et praecepta revocare aliquid (De Or. 1. 41)
- (ambiguous) to have been reduced to a system: arte conclusum esse
- (ambiguous) to be very intimately related: arte (artissime) coniunctum esse
- (ambiguous) a work of art: artis opus; opus arte factum or perfectum
- (ambiguous) to follow an artistic profession, practise an art: artem exercere
- (ambiguous) to teach an art: artem tradere, docere
- (ambiguous) to profess an art: artem profiteri
- (ambiguous) a taste for the fine arts: artium (liberalium) studium, or simply studium
- (ambiguous) the rules of art; aesthetics: artis praecepta, or also simply ars
- (ambiguous) a connoisseur; a specialist: (artis, artium) intellegens, peritus (opp. idiota, a layman)
- (ambiguous) to learn, study music: artem musicam discere, tractare
- (ambiguous) to be very eloquent: dicendi arte florere
- (ambiguous) to reduce law to a system: ius ad artem redigere
- abstruse studies: studia, quae in reconditis artibus versantur (De Or. 1. 2. 8)
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 55
LatvianEdit
VerbEdit
ars
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érsos.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ars
QuotationsEdit
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XII:
- & thenne he rode after the bore / & thenne syre laūcelot was ware where the bore set his ars to a tree by an hermytage / Thenne sir launcelot ranne atte bore with his spere / & ther with the bore torned hym nemly
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “ărs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2Edit
From Old French arz, artz (plural of art), from Latin artēs.
NounEdit
ars
- (Early Middle English) plural of art (“(area of) knowledge”)
Old FrenchEdit
VerbEdit
ars m (masculine plural ars, feminine singular arse, feminine plural arses)
- inflection of ardeir:
Old High GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *ars.
NounEdit
ars m
DeclensionEdit
case | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | ars | arsa |
accusative | ars | arsa |
genitive | arses | arso |
dative | arse | arsum |
instrumental | arsu | — |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Middle High German: ars
ReferencesEdit
- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
Old NorseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *arsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁orsos (“arse”).
NounEdit
ars m (genitive ars, plural arsar)
DeclensionEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
“ars”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old SaxonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *ars.
NounEdit
ars m
DescendantsEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Latin ārsus, past participle of ārdeō. Compare Italian arso, Aromanian arsu.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
ars
- past participle of arde
AdjectiveEdit
ars m or n (feminine singular arsă, masculine plural arși, feminine and neuter plural arse)
DeclensionEdit
Scottish GaelicEdit
VerbEdit
ars
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
ars
- indefinite genitive singular of ar.
- indefinite genitive plural of ar.
AnagramsEdit
Tok PisinEdit
NounEdit
ars