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“art” in Latin
arsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemmanushand; bravery, valor; violence, fightingartificiumart, craft, skill, talent, artifice, craftsmanship; profession, trade, an employmentopuswork, labor, accomplishment; workmanship, artwork, work (of art, literature, etc.); need, necessity
The English word art itself goes back to Latin ars, through artem.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
art
(1) (1) human dexterity: (a) as opposed to nature: ars: manus (the human hand): by art, arte, per artem (general term): manu, opere (by human labor). Fortified by art (of a fortress, etc.), manu or opere munitus: (b) opposed to what is merely mechanical: ars (general term, as the theory or set of rules by which the artist works; the skill with which he works, or with which anything is made): artificium (the skill with which any thing is made). The healing art, ars medendi. With art, arte, ex arte (e.g., scribere, canere): scienter (scientifically; e.g., tibiis cantare): to bear upon it the stamp of art, artis signno notatum esse: (2) readiness or dexterity of one particular kind, obtained by practice: (a) generally, ars: scientia alicujus rei (experimental knowledge; e.g., philosophandi; fundendi aeris); studium alicujus rei (pursuit of any thing: an art so far as it is actually practiced). The art of painting, ars pingendi: the art of securing everybody’s good-will, ars ad promerendam omnium voluntatem: the art of conversation, of social intercourse, sermocinatrix (scilicet, ars: as translation of the Greek προσομιλητική).
Trick, artifice, ars (τέχνη): artificium (only in Comedy: also techna) :
(b) (b) a particular trade, profession, art, ars: artificium: to study an art, arti alicui studere: to follow or practice an art, artem colore, factitare; in arte versari, so exercere (exercere artem, doubtful, Krebs): to leave off an art, artem desinere: to reduce anything to an art, aliquid ad artem redigere; aliquid in artem vertere. War became an art, disciplina militaris in artis modum venit. The mechanical arts, artes sordidae: quaestus sordidi. The liberal arts, artes ingenuae, or liberales, or honestae, or elegantes. (The words are found in this connection and order), artes elegantes et ingenuae; studia liberalia: the arts and sciences, artes et disciplinae; studia et artes: a lover of the fine arts, liberalium artium studiosus: homo elegans: artium amator: all the liberal arts, omnes bonarum rerum disciplinae: the arts of war and peace, artes belli et pacis.
MASTER OF ARTS, magister liberalium artium: to take the degree of Master of Arts, ad amplissimum magistri gradum promoveri. Vid: MASTER.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for art?
- The usual Latin words for “art” are ars, manus, artificium; also opus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.