Where does “art” come from?
Art comes from Latin ars, meaning skill or craft, ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European root h₂er- meaning to join or fit together.
art (English): Wikisource; The conscious production or...
Definitions
- Wikisource; The conscious production or...
Ancestry of “art”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | art | Second-person singular present indicative form of... |
| 2 | Old French | art | art (skill; practice; method) |
| 3 | Latin | artem | accusative singular of ars; first-person singular... |
| 4 | Latin | ars | art; skill, craft, handicraft, trade, power |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | artis | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂értis | fitting |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |