Where does “arty” come from?
Arty derives from English art plus the suffix -y, from Latin ars meaning skill or craft, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₁és- meaning to be.
arty (English): Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown
Definitions
- Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown
Ancestry of “arty”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | art | Wikisource; The conscious production or... |
| 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 |