art

See also: Art, ART, árt, ärt, 'art, -art, art., and Appendix:Variations of "art"

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɑːt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɑɹt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
  • Hyphenation: art

Etymology 1

From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Displaced native Middle English liste (“art”) (from Old English list).

Noun

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

art (countable and uncountable, plural arts)

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Wikibooks

  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.
    • 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.
    There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
  2. (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
    She's mastered the art of programming.
  3. (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
    He's at university to study art.
  4. (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
    Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
  5. (uncountable) Artwork.
    Sotherby's regularly auctions art for millions.
  6. (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
    I'm a great supporter of the arts.
  7. (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.
  8. (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.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
      The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an 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.
  9. (uncountable, dated) Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
    • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights:
      ...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.


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Etymology 2

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

Verb

art

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

See also

References

Further reading

  • "art" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 40.

Anagrams


Albanian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ars, artem.

Noun

art m (definite singular arti)

  1. art

Catalan

Noun

art m, f (plural arts)

  1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

Cornish

Etymology

From Latin ars (“art”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɒɹt]

Noun

art m (plural artys)

  1. art

Crimean Tatar

Noun

art

  1. back
    Synonyms: arqa, sırt

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German art.

Noun

art c (singular definite arten, plural indefinite arter)

  1. kind
  2. nature
  3. species

Inflection

French

Etymology

From Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʁ/
  • audio(file)

Noun

art m (plural arts)

  1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

art m (genitive singular airt, nominative plural airt)

  1. stone

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith 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.

Further reading

  • "art" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “art” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Latvian

Art
Art ar traktoru

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *ar-, *arə-, *h₂erh₃- (“to plow”), from *h₁er- (“sparse; to crumble, to fall to pieces”), whence also the verb irt (q.v.). 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 ẖarra- (“to crush; (passive form) to disappear”), ẖarš- (“to tear open; to plow”), Ancient Greek ἀρόω (aróō), Latin arō.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [âɾt]
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Verb

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

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

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

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic أَرْض‎ (ʾarḍ).

Noun

art f

  1. earth

Middle French

Noun

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

  1. (biology) a species

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

  1. (biology) a species

Derived terms

Old French

Etymology

From Latin artem, accusative of ars.

Noun

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

  1. art (skill; practice; method)
    • 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

Descendants

  • → English: art
  • Middle French: art

References

Old Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ar͈t/

Noun

art m

  1. bear
    Synonym: mathgamain

Inflection

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

Mutation

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • audio(file)

Noun

art c

  1. species

Declension

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

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *hārt (“back”). Cognate with Old Turkic [Term?].

Noun

art (definite accusative artı, plural artlar)

  1. back

Declension

Inflection
Nominative art
Definite accusative artı
Singular Plural
Nominative art artlar
Definite accusative artı artları
Dative arta artlara
Locative artta artlarda
Ablative arttan artlardan
Genitive artın artların
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