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LATIN · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

ars.

THE SHORT MEANING

Skill, craft, or art.

Ideas & craft

3 characters1 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈars]Classical-Latin[ˈars]
  1. art, skill, craft, handicraft

    declension-3 · feminine
  2. trade, occupation, employment

    declension-3 · feminine
  3. cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem

    declension-3 · feminine
Where this word comes from

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.

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