artificiosus

Latin

Etymology

From artificium (“skill”) +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ar.ti.fi.kiˈoː.sus/, [ärt̪ɪfɪkiˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.ti.fi.t͡ʃiˈo.sus/, [ärt̪ifit͡ʃiˈɔːs̬us]

Adjective

artificiōsus (feminine artificiōsa, neuter artificiōsum, comparative artificiōsior, superlative artificiōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. full of skill, skilful, artful, ingenious
2. according to the rules of art
3. (in a passive sense) made with art; artificial, unnatural

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	artificiōsus	artificiōsa	artificiōsum		artificiōsī	artificiōsae	artificiōsa
genitive	artificiōsī	artificiōsae	artificiōsī		artificiōsōrum	artificiōsārum	artificiōsōrum
dative	artificiōsō	artificiōsae	artificiōsō		artificiōsīs
accusative	artificiōsum	artificiōsam	artificiōsum		artificiōsōs	artificiōsās	artificiōsa
ablative	artificiōsō	artificiōsā	artificiōsō		artificiōsīs
vocative	artificiōse	artificiōsa	artificiōsum		artificiōsī	artificiōsae	artificiōsa

Descendants

• Catalan: artificiós
• French: artificieux
• Galician: artificioso
• Italian: artificioso
• Portuguese: artificioso
• Romanian: artificios
• Sicilian: artificiusu
• Spanish: artificioso

References

• “artificiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “artificiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• artificiosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to treat with scientific exactness; to classify: artificiose redigere aliquid