ars

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ars"

English

Noun

ars

1. plural of ar

Anagrams

• ASR, RAS, RAs, RSA, Ras, SAR, Sar, Sar., asr, ras

Danish

Etymology 1

See ar (“scar”).

Noun

ars n

1. indefinite genitive singular/plural of ar

Etymology 2

See ar (“are”).

Noun

ars c

1. indefinite genitive singular/plural of ar

Irish

Verb

ars

1. (dated) Alternative form of arsa used before the definite article an

Usage notes

In the modern standard language, arsa + an is written together as arsan; in older usage the spelling ars an may also be found.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *artis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥tís (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

Cognates include Avestan 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀 (ər^əta, “truth, right”), which in turn descends from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr̥tás, and Ancient Greek ἄρτι (árti, “just, exactly”). Related to arma.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈars]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈars]

Noun

ars f (genitive artis); third declension

1. 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.

2. trade, occupation, employment

   Synonym: artificium

3. cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem

   Synonyms: dēceptiō, fraus, maleficium, perfidia, dolus, stratēgēma

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	ars	artēs
genitive	artis	artium
dative	artī	artibus
accusative	artem	artēs artīs
ablative	arte	artibus
vocative	ars	artēs

Derived terms

• ars gratia artis
• artista
• artifex
• iners
• sollers

Related terms

• arto
• arctō

Descendants

• Corsican: arte
• Extremaduran: arti
• Franco-Provençal: ârt
• → German: lege artis
• Italian: arte
• Ligurian: arte
• Lombard: aart
• Neapolitan: arte
• Old French: art
  • Middle French: art
    • French: art
      • Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
      • Icelandic: art (f)
  • Norman: art
  • Walloon: årt
  • → Middle English: art
    • English: art
      • Jamaican Creole: aat
      • Tok Pisin: at
      • → Japanese: アート (āto)
      • → Korean: 아트 (ateu)
    • Scots: airt
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: arte
  • Mirandese: arte
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: art
  • Occitan: art
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: arte
  • Portuguese: arte
• Old Spanish:
  • Ladino:

    Hebrew script: ארטי

    Latin script: arte

  • Spanish: arte
    • → Basque: arte
    • → Hiligaynon: arte
    • → Ilocano: arte
    • → Tagalog: arte
    • → Waray-Waray: arte
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: art
  • Ladin: ert
• Sardinian: arti
• Sicilian: arti
  • → Maltese: arti
• Venetan: arte
• → Albanian: art
• → Aromanian: artâ
• → Breton: arz
• → Cornish: art
• → Romanian: artă

Further reading

• “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 (2003-2025), 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
    

Latvian

Verb

ars

1. third-person singular/plural future indicative of art

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁órsos.

Alternative forms

• arce, ers, eres, hars, hers, aars

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈars/, /ˈɛrs/

Noun

ars

1. arse, anus
2. bottom, buttocks

Quotations

• 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 quotation)

Descendants

• English: arse, ass
• Scots: ers, airse

References

• “ărs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old French arz, artz (plural of art), from Latin artēs.

Noun

ars

1. (Early Middle English) plural of art (“(area of) knowledge”)

Old French

Verb

ars m (masculine plural ars, feminine singular arse, feminine plural arses)

1. inflection of ardeir:
   1. oblique/nominative masculine singular participle
   2. oblique/nominative masculine plural past participle

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ars.

Noun

ars m

1. arse
2. buttocks when plural
3. backside

Declension

Declension of ars (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	ars	arsā, arsa
accusative	ars	arsā, arsa
genitive	arses	arso
dative	arse	arsum
instrumental	arsu	—

Derived terms

• arsdarm
• arswisk

Descendants

• Middle High German: ars
  • Bavarian: Oasch
  • Cimbrian: aars
  • German: Arsch
  • Hunsrik: Aarsch
  • Luxembourgish: Aasch
  • Pennsylvania German: Aarsch

References

• Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• rass

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *arsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁órsos (“arse”).

Noun

ars m (genitive ars, plural arsar)

1. arse, anus

Declension

Declension of ars (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ars	arsinn	arsar	arsarnir
accusative	ars	arsinn	arsa	arsana
dative	arsi	arsinum	ǫrsum	ǫrsunum
genitive	ars	arsins	arsa	arsanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: ars
• Faroese: arsur
• Old Swedish: ars
  • ⇒ Swedish: arsel, arsle

Further reading

Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ars”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ars.

Noun

ars m

1. the arse; the buttocks or anus

Descendants

• Middle Low German: ars
  • Dutch Low Saxon: ars, ors
  • German Low German: Aars
  • ⇒ by rebracketing:
    • Dutch Low Saxon: nors, mors
    • German Low German: Maars, Moors, Narsch, Närsch, Närs

      Plautdietsch: Noasch

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ārsus, past participle of ārdeō. Compare Italian arso, Aromanian arsu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ars/

• Audio:

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Verb

ars

1. past participle of arde

Adjective

ars m or n (feminine singular arsă, masculine plural arși, feminine and neuter plural arse)

1. burnt
2. scorched, parched

Declension

Declension of ars

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	ars		arsă		arși	arse
	definite	arsul		arsa		arșii	arsele
genitive- dative	indefinite	ars		arse		arși	arse
	definite	arsului		arsei		arșilor	arselor

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /ɔs̪/
• (South Uist) IPA^(key): /ɔ(rˠ)ʃ/
• (Barra) IPA^(key): [ɔs̪ˠ]

Verb

ars

1. Alternative form of arsa (“said”) used before vowels

   "Bu toil leam sin glè mhath," ars ise. ― "I would really like that," she said.

   Ars an t-uan, "Cha d' rugadh mis' ach o chionn sia mìosan." ― The lamb said, "I was only born six months ago"

Swedish

Noun

ars

1. indefinite genitive singular of ar
2. indefinite genitive plural of ar

Anagrams

• -sar, ras

Tok Pisin

Noun

ars

1. (vulgar, anatomy) the arse.