Where does “artless” come from?
Artless derives from English art plus the suffix -less, tracing back through Latin ars and artem to Proto-Indo-European h₂er-, meaning to fit or join together.
artless (English): Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or...
Definitions
- Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or...
Ancestry of “artless”, step by step
| 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 |