art

arti (definite)
art (indefinite nominative singular)
arti (definite nominative singular)
arte (indefinite nominative plural)
artet (definite nominative plural)
art (accusative indefinite singular)
artin (accusative definite singular)
arte (accusative indefinite plural)
artet (accusative definite plural)
arti (dative indefinite singular)
artit (dative definite singular)
arteve (dative indefinite plural)
arteve (dative definite plural)
arti (ablative indefinite singular)
artit (ablative definite singular)
artesh (ablative indefinite plural)
arteve (ablative definite plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin ars, artem.


art

head

art c (singular definite arten, plural indefinite arter)

arten (definite singular)
arter (indefinite plural)
art (indefinite nominative singular)
arten (definite nominative singular)
arter (indefinite nominative plural)
arterne (definite nominative plural)
arts (genitive indefinite singular)
artens (definite genitive singular)
arters (genitive indefinite plural)
arternes (definite genitive plural)

→ Icelandic: art

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


art

There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.

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.

1992 May 3, “Comrade Bingo”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:

"I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror."

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.

2009, Alexander Brouwer, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(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.

(uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.

She's mastered the art of programming.

(countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.

He's at university to study art.

(uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.

Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.

Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.

art collection

I'm a great supporter of the arts.

(countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.

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.

2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

(countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.

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.

1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 217:

The relation of science to art may be summed up in a brief expression: From Science comes Prevision: from Prevision comes Action.

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 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.

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:

Let's make sandwiches out of colored paper and teach people how to listen. Listening is a social art and we had best hang on to it. A tape recording stuck in your ear won't do.

1983 December 3, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 21:

(countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.

it was not art,
Of wisdom and of justice when he spoke—
When ’mid soft looks of pity, there would dart
A glance as keen as is the lightning’s stroke
When it doth rive the knots of some ancestral oak.

1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 222:

[...] and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister-in-law in due restraint, when she returned home employing art, not force—with force she would have found it impossible.

1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter VI, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 112:

(uncountable, dated) Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.

en-noun

art (countable and uncountable, plural arts)

Jamaican Creole: aat

Tok Pisin: at

→ Japanese: アート (āto)

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.


art

How great thou art!

(archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of be

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.


art

la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile

Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)

Icelandic: art (f)

From Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.


art

það var svo góð art í honum að hann talaði aldrei nema vel um fólk á bak

He had such a good nature that he never spoke unkindly about people behind their backs.

[First attested in the 1500s]

það er engin art í grasinu

is-noun

art f (genitive singular artar, nominative plural artir)

artar (genitive singular)
artir (nominative plural)
art (indefinite nominative singular)
artin (definite nominative singular)
artir (indefinite nominative plural)
artirnar (definite nominative plural)
art (accusative indefinite singular)
artina (accusative definite singular)
artir (accusative indefinite plural)
artirnar (accusative definite plural)
art (dative indefinite singular)
artinni (dative definite singular)
örtum (dative indefinite plural)
örtunum (dative definite plural)
artar (genitive indefinite singular)
artarinnar (definite genitive singular)
arta (genitive indefinite plural)
artanna (definite genitive plural)

First attested in the 1600s. Borrowed from Danish or Middle High German art, both from Middle Low German ārt, from Old Saxon *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“nature, quality, characteristic”). The sense "art" is a borrowing from French art, which is a distant cognate.
Compare Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish art. Doublet of arður.


art

head

art m (genitive singular airt, nominative plural airt)

airt (genitive singular)
airt (nominative plural)
art (indefinite nominative singular)
airt (indefinite nominative plural)
a airt (indefinite singular vocative)
a arta (indefinite plural vocative)
airt (genitive indefinite singular)
art (genitive indefinite plural)
art (dative indefinite singular)
airt (dative indefinite plural)
an t-art (definite nominative singular)
na hairt (definite nominative plural)
an airt (definite genitive singular)
na n-art (definite genitive plural)
leis an art (dative definite singular)
don art (dative definite singular)
leis na hairt (dative definite plural)
art
n-art
hart

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


art

art zemi

art tīrumu, lauku

art dārzu

art kūdraino augsni

art ar traktoru

papuvi ara divi traktori

iziet art agri no rīta

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

to plow (to prepare (land) for sowing by using a plow)

art (transitive, 1st conjugation, present aru, ar, ar, past aru)

conjugation (first-person)
aru (present)
ar (present)
aru (past)
es (first-person indicative singular)
aru (first-person indicative present singular)
aru (first-person indicative past singular)
aršu (first-person future indicative singular)
tu (indicative second-person singular)
ar (indicative present second-person singular)
ari (indicative past second-person singular)
arsi (future indicative second-person singular)
ar (imperative second-person singular)
viņš (indicative singular third-person)
viņa (indicative singular third-person)
ar (indicative present singular third-person)
ara (indicative past singular third-person)
ars (future indicative singular third-person)
lai ar (imperative singular third-person)
mēs (first-person indicative plural)
aram (first-person indicative plural present)
arām (first-person indicative past plural)
arsim (first-person future indicative plural)
arsim (first-person imperative plural)
jūs (indicative plural second-person)
arat (indicative plural present second-person)
arāt (indicative past plural second-person)
arsiet (future indicative plural second-person)
arsit (future indicative plural second-person)
ariet (imperative plural second-person)
viņi (indicative plural third-person)
viņas (indicative plural third-person)
ar (indicative plural present third-person)
ara (indicative past plural third-person)
ars (future indicative plural third-person)
lai ar (imperative plural third-person)
arot (present renarrative)
arošs (participle)
esot aris (past renarrative)
ardams (participle)
aršot (future renarrative)
arot (participle)
lai arot (imperative)
aram (participle)
aris (active conditional participle past)
artu (conditional present)
arams (participle)
būtu aris (conditional past)
arts (participle passive past)
jāar (debitive indicative)
būt jāar (debitive indicative)
art (infinitive participle)
esot jāar (debitive renarrative)
neart (participle)
jāarot (debitive renarrative)
aršana (noun-from-verb participle)

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.


art

u lili firdu minn mal-art għal dejjem,
u jien sfajt blata u gżira l-aktar ċkejkna,
bi ftit faqqiegħ u ftit gremxul sewdieni
ngħix ħajja waħdi.

1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral”, in Fanali bil-Lejl:

art twelidi

bla art

mt-noun

art f (plural artijiet or (obsolete) iradi)

artijiet (plural)
iradi (obsolete plural)
arti (first-person singular)
artna (first-person singular)
artek (second-person singular)
artkom (second-person singular)
artu (masculine singular third-person)
artha (feminine singular third-person)
arthom (singular third-person)
ard (alternative)


art

second-person singular present indicative of been

English: art (archaic, dialectal)

Yola: yarth, yart

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


art

A member of the seven medieval liberal arts (the trivium and quadrivium).

The seven medieval liberal arts as a group; the trivium and quadrivium combined.

The foundational knowledge and activities of a field or subject (either academic or trade).

Applied or practical knowledge; the execution or realisation of knowledge.

Guile, craft or an instance of it; the use of deception or sleight-of hand.

Competency, skill; one's aptitude or ability in a given area or at a given task.

A set of rules or guidelines for conducting oneself; a code of conduct.

(rare) Knowledge, information; the set of things which one has learned about (through formal study).

(rare) Rhetoric; skill in oration, argument, speech, or speaking.

(rare) Human behaviour or action (as opposed to natural happenings).

artes (plural)
ars (plural)
aart (alternative)
arte (alternative)

English: art

Scots: airt

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


art

Scots: airt

Yola: ete

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


art

Il y a de toutes choses habondance, et ils vivent de marchandise et d'art.

15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 15, lines 7–8:

There is an abundance of everything and they make a living from merchandise and from art

desctree

French: art
Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
Icelandic: art (f)


art

arta (definite singular)
arten (definite singular)
arter (indefinite plural)
artene (definite plural)


art

head

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

arten (definite singular)
arta (definite singular)
artar (indefinite plural)
arter (indefinite plural)
artane (definite plural)
artene (definite plural)


art

ore serroit a saver de l’art a bresser & brasyr

Walter of Bibbesworth: Le Tretiz, ed. W. Rothwell, ANTS Plain Texts Series 6, 1990. Date of cited text: circa 1250

Now would be the time to know the art of brewing

fro-noun

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

art oblique singular or (canonical feminine masculine)
arz (oblique plural)
artz (oblique plural)
arz (nominative singular)
artz (nominative singular)
art (nominative plural)

desctree

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)

Scots: airt


art

art (nominative singular)
art (dual nominative)
airt (nominative plural)
airt (singular vocative)
art (dual vocative)
artu (plural vocative)
art (accusative singular)
art (accusative dual)
artu (accusative plural)
airt (genitive singular)
art (dual genitive)
art (genitive plural)
art (dative singular)
artaib (dative dual)
artaib (dative plural)
art
n-art

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos
Proto-Celtic *artos
Old Irish art
Inherited from Proto-Celtic *artos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos. Compare Cornish arth, Welsh arth.


art

strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of argr


art

art (indefinite nominative singular)
arts (genitive indefinite singular)
arten (definite nominative singular)
artens (definite genitive singular)
arter (indefinite nominative plural)
arters (genitive indefinite plural)
arterna (definite nominative plural)
arternas (definite genitive plural)

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


art

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


art

art tekerler

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


art

Ardına bakmadan kaçtı.

He ran away without looking "at his back".

head

art (definite accusative ardı, plural artlar)

ardı (accusative definite)
artlar (plural)
art (nominative singular)
artlar (nominative plural)
ardı (accusative definite singular)
artları (accusative definite plural)
arda (dative singular)
artlara (dative plural)
artta (locative singular)
artlarda (locative plural)
arttan (ablative singular)
artlardan (ablative plural)
ardın (genitive singular)
artların (genitive plural)