Where does “arterati” come from?
arterati (English) comes from English Art, from Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, from Latin ars, from Proto-Italic artis, from Proto-Indo-European h₂értis, from Proto-Indo-European h₂er- — to fit, to fix, to put together.
arterati (English): People who are considered the elite in the world of art
Definitions
- People who are considered the elite in the world of art
Ancestry of “arterati”, step by step
arterati traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Art
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Art | 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 |
| 2 | Middle English | art | Second-person singular present indicative form of... |
| 3 | Old French | art | art (skill; practice; method) |
| 4 | Latin | artem | accusative singular of ars; first-person singular... |
| 5 | Latin | ars | art; skill, craft, handicraft, trade, power |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | artis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂értis | fitting |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |
via English literati
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | literati | Well-educated, literary people; intellectuals who... |
| 2 | Latin | literati | nominative masculine plural of literātus;... |
| 3 | Latin | literatus | Alternative form of litterātus |
| 4 | Latin | lītera | — |
| 5 | Old Latin | leitera | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂leyH- | to smear |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | leyh₂- | to die, disapear; to avoid, elude, decline,... |