Wiktionary

art

See also: Appendix:Variations of "art"

TranslingualEdit

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art

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for artificial languages.

EnglishEdit

 
A painting showing many kinds of art, including literature, music, and painting itself.

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Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.

NounEdit

art (countable and uncountable, plural arts)

  1. (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
    There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
    • 1992 May 3, "Comrade Bingo" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
      B.W. Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world.
      R. Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it?
      B.W. Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do.
      R. Jeeves: Very good, sir.
    • 2005 July, Lynn Freed, Harper's:
      "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror."
    • 2009, Alexander Brouwer:
      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.
  2. (uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
  3. (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
    She's mastered the art of programming.
  4. (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
    He's at university to study art.
  5. (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
    Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
  6. (uncountable) Artwork.
    Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
    art collection
  7. (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
    I'm a great supporter of the arts.
  8. (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
    • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
      Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
  10. (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
    • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page 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.
    • 1855, Harriet Martineau's translation, The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte Vol. 1, Introduction, Ch. 2, page 21, from Auguste Comte, Cours de philosophie positive (1830–1842)
      The relation of science to art may be summed up in a brief expression: From Science comes Prevision: from Prevision comes Action.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:
      The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
  11. (uncountable, dated) Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
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  • Pages starting with “art”.
    • DescendantsEdit
    • Jamaican Creole: aat
    • Tok Pisin: at
    • → Japanese: アート (āto)
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    Etymology 2Edit

    From Middle English art, from Old English eart (“(thou) art”), second-person singular present indicative of wesan, from Proto-Germanic *art (“(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.

    VerbEdit

    art

    1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of be
      How great thou art!

    See alsoEdit

    ReferencesEdit

    • art at OneLook Dictionary Search
    • "art" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 40.
    • art in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
    • art in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
    • Hickey, Raymond (1984), “Coronal Segments in Irish English”, in Journal of Linguistics, volume 20, issue 2, →DOI, pages 233–250

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    AlbanianEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    Learned borrowing from Latin ars, artem.

    NounEdit

    art m (definite singular arti)

    1. art

    DeclensionEdit

    declension of art
    indefinite forms definite forms
    nominative art arti
    accusative art artin
    genitive
    (i/e/të/së)     		arti artit
    dative arti artit
    ablative arti artit

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    CatalanEdit

     
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    EtymologyEdit

    From Latin ars.

    PronunciationEdit

    NounEdit

    art m or f (plural arts)

    1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

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    NounEdit

    art m (plural arts)

    1. fishing net

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    CornishEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    From Latin ars (“art”).

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    NounEdit

    art m (plural artys)

    1. art

    Crimean TatarEdit

    NounEdit

    art

    1. back
      Synonyms: arqa, sırt

    DanishEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    From Middle Low German art, from Old Saxon *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz, cognate with German Art.

    PronunciationEdit

    NounEdit

    art c (singular definite arten, plural indefinite arter)

    1. kind
    2. nature
    3. species

    InflectionEdit

    Declension of art
    common
    gender     		Singular Plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative art arten arter arterne
    genitive arts artens arters arternes

    FrenchEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    From Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.

    PronunciationEdit

    NounEdit

    art m (plural arts)

    1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

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    DescendantsEdit

    • Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)

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    IrishEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    From Old Irish art, explained in glossaries as “stone”.

    NounEdit

    art m (genitive singular airt, nominative plural airt)

    1. stone

    DeclensionEdit

    Declension of art

    First declension

    Bare forms:

    Case Singular Plural
    Nominative art airt
    Vocative a airt a arta
    Genitive airt art
    Dative art airt

    Forms with the definite article:

    Case Singular Plural
    Nominative an t-art na hairt
    Genitive an airt na n-art
    Dative leis an art

    don art

    		leis na hairt

    Derived termsEdit

    MutationEdit

    Irish mutation
    Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
    art n-art hart not applicable
    Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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    LatvianEdit

     
    Art
     
    Art ar traktoru

    EtymologyEdit

    From Proto-Baltic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plow”), from *h₁er- (“sparse; to crumble, to fall to pieces”), whence also the verb irt; see there for more.

    Cognates include Lithuanian árti, Old Prussian artoys (“plowman”) (compare Lithuanian artójas), Old Church Slavonic орати (orati), Russian dialectal or dated ора́ть (orátʹ), Belarusian ара́ць (arácʹ), Ukrainian ора́ти (oráty), Bulgarian ора́ (orá), Czech orati, Polish orać, Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (arjan), Old Norse erja, Hittite [Term?] (/ẖarra-/, “to crush; (passive form) to disappear”), [Term?] (/ẖarš-/, “to tear open; to plow”), Ancient Greek ἀρόω (aróō), Latin arō.[1]

    PronunciationEdit

    (file)

    VerbEdit

    art (tr., 1st conj., pres. aru, ar, ar, past aru)

    1. 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

    ConjugationEdit

    conjugation of art
    INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) IMPERATIVE
    (pavēles izteiksme)
    Present
    (tagadne)     		Past
    (pagātne)     		Future
    (nākotne)
    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
    RENARRATIVE (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

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    ReferencesEdit

    1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “art”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN.

    MalteseEdit

    Alternative formsEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    From Arabic أَرْض (ʾarḍ).

    PronunciationEdit

    • IPA(key): /art/
    • IPA(key): /aːrt/ (variant, as if spelt *għart)

    NounEdit

    art f (plural artijiet or (obsolete) iradi)

    1. earth (our planet)
      Synonym: dinja
    2. land, ground, soil
    3. homeland
      art twelidi ― my homeland
      bla art ― without a homeland

    InflectionEdit

        Inflected forms
    Personal-pronoun-
    including forms     		singular plural
    m f
    1st person arti artna
    2nd person artek artkom
    3rd person artu artha arthom

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    Middle EnglishEdit

    Etymology 1Edit

    From Old English eart, second person singular of wesan (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *art, second person singular of *iraną.

    Alternative formsEdit

    PronunciationEdit

    VerbEdit

    art

    2. second-person singular present indicative of been
    Usage notesEdit

    This form is more common than bist for the second-person singular.

    DescendantsEdit

    Etymology 2Edit

    Borrowed from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative form of ars, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥tís.

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    NounEdit

    art (plural artes or ars)

    2. A member of the seven medieval liberal arts (the trivium and quadrivium).
    3. The seven medieval liberal arts as a group; the trivium and quadrivium combined.
    4. The foundational knowledge and activities of a field or subject (either academic or trade).
    5. Applied or practical knowledge; the execution or realisation of knowledge.
    6. Guile, craft or an instance of it; the use of deception or sleight-of hand.
    7. Competency, skill; one's aptitude or ability in a given area or at a given task.
    8. A set of rules or guidelines for conducting oneself; a code of conduct.
    9. (rare) Knowledge, information; the set of things which one has learned about (through formal study).
    10. (rare) Rhetoric; skill in oration, argument, speech, or speaking.
    11. (rare) Human behaviour or action (as opposed to natural happenings).
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    Etymology 3Edit

    From Old English eard, from Proto-West Germanic *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“nature; type”). Doublet of erd (“nature, disposition”).

    NounEdit

    art

    2. (Northern) district, locality.
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    Middle FrenchEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    Inherited from Old French art.

    NounEdit

    art m (plural ars)

    1. art
      • 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 15, line 7-8:
        Il y a de toutes choses habondance, et ils vivent de marchandise et d'art.
        There is an abundance of everything and they make a living from merchandise and from art

    DescendantsEdit

    • French: art
      • Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)

    Norwegian BokmålEdit

     
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    NounEdit

    art f or m (definite singular arta or arten, indefinite plural arter, definite plural artene)

    1. character, nature, kind
    2. (biology) a species

    Derived termsEdit

    Terms derived from art

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    Norwegian NynorskEdit

     
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    NounEdit

    art m or f (definite singular arten or arta, indefinite plural artar or arter, definite plural artane or artene)

    1. (biology) a species
    2. character, nature, kind

    Derived termsEdit

    Terms derived from art

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    OccitanEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    From Latin ars.

    PronunciationEdit

    NounEdit

    art m (plural arts)

    1. art

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    Old FrenchEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    From Latin artem, accusative of ars.

    NounEdit

    art m or f (oblique plural arz or artz, nominative singular arz or artz, nominative plural art)

    1. art (skill; practice; method)
      • (Can we date this quote?) Walter of Bibbesworth: Le Tretiz, ed. W. Rothwell, ANTS Plain Texts Series 6, 1990. Date of cited text: circa 1250
        ore serroit a saver de l’art a bresser & brasyr
        Now would be the time to know the art of brewing

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    Old IrishEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    From Proto-Celtic *artos (“bear”) (compare Cornish arth, Welsh arth), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”).

    PronunciationEdit

    NounEdit

    art m

    1. bear
      Synonym: mathgamain

    InflectionEdit

    Masculine o-stem
    Singular Dual Plural
    Nominative art artL airtL
    Vocative airt artL artuH
    Accusative artN artL artuH
    Genitive airtL art artN
    Dative artL artaib artaib
    Initial mutations of a following adjective:
    • H = triggers aspiration
    • L = triggers lenition
    • N = triggers nasalization

    MutationEdit

    Old Irish mutation
    Radical Lenition Nasalization
    art unchanged n-art
    Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
    possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

    Old NorseEdit

    Alternative formsEdit

    AdjectiveEdit

    art

    1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of argr

    SwedishEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    From Old Swedish art, from Middle Low German art, from Old Saxon *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“character, nature, inborn quality”).

    PronunciationEdit

    NounEdit

    art c

    1. species

    DeclensionEdit

    Declension of art 
    Singular Plural
    Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
    Nominative art arten arter arterna
    Genitive arts artens arters arternas

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    TurkishEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    From Ottoman Turkish آرت (art), آرد (ard) from Proto-Turkic *hārt (“back”). Cognate with Turkish arka.

    PronunciationEdit

    AdjectiveEdit

    art

    1. hind, rear
      art tekerler ― rear wheels

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    NounEdit

    art (definite accusative ardı, plural artlar)

    1. back
      Ardına bakmadan kaçtı.
      He ran away without looking "at his back".
    2. the other side

    DeclensionEdit

    Inflection
    Nominative art
    Definite accusative ardı
    Singular Plural
    Nominative art artlar
    Definite accusative ardı artları
    Dative arda artlara
    Locative artta artlarda
    Ablative arttan artlardan
    Genitive ardın artların

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