English - Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɑːt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

English - Etymology 1

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

art (countable and uncountable, plural arts)

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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.

   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.
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.

Synonyms

• (Human effort): craft

Antonyms

• (Human effort): mundacity, nature, subsistence

Quotations

• 2005, "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror." -July Harper's, Lynn Freed
• 2009, "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." - Extended Essay on Visual Art, Alexander Brouwer

Derived terms

• Look at pages starting with art.

Translations

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• Afrikaans: kuns
• Arabic: فن m (fann), (plural) فنون (funuun)
• Armenian: արվեստ (arvest)
• Bulgarian: уме́ние (bg) (uménie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藝術 (zh), 艺术 (zh) (yìshù)

• Czech: umění (cs) n
• Dutch: kunst (nl) f
• Finnish: taide (fi)
• Greek: τέχνη (el) f (téchni)

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• Italian: arte (it) f
• Japanese: 技術 (ja) (gijutsu), 芸術 (ja) (geijutsu), アート (ja) (āto)
• Latin: ars
• Portuguese: arte (pt) f
• Russian: иску́сство (ru) n (iskússtvo)
• Scots: airt
• Slovak: umenie n
• Spanish: arte (es) m
• Swedish: konst (sv) c

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English - 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

English - Anagrams

• rat, RTA, tar

Albanian - Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ars, artem.

Albanian - Noun

art m (definite singular arti)

1. art

Catalan - Noun

art m, f (plural arts)

1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

Related terms

• artista
• artístic

Cornish - Etymology

From Latin ars, artis (“art”).

Cornish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɒɹt]

Cornish - Noun

art m (plural artys)

1. art

Crimean Tatar - Noun

art

1. back

Synonyms

• arqa, sırt

Danish - Etymology

From Middle Low German art.

Danish - 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.

French - Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʁ

French - Noun

art m (plural arts)

1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

Derived terms

• artiste
• neuvième art

French - Anagrams

• rat

French - External Links

• "art" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latvian - Etymology

From Proto-Baltic, 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

Latvian - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [âɾt]

Latvian - 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

Related terms

• arājs
• arkls
• arums

Latvian - References

1. ^ “art” in Konstantīns Karulis (1992, 2001), Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca, in 2 vols, Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN: 9984-700-12-7.

Maltese - Etymology

From Arabic ارض (’arɖ).

Maltese - Noun

art f

1. earth

Middle French - Noun

art m (plural ars)

1. art

Norwegian Bokmål - Noun

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

1. (biology) a species

Derived terms

• bergart
• underart

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

• bergart
• underart

Old Irish - Etymology

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

Old Irish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar͈t/

Old Irish - Noun

art m

1. bear

Synonyms

• mathgamain

Swedish - Noun

art c

1. species

Declension

Turkish - Etymology

From Old Turkic art, from Proto-Turkic *hārt (“back”).

Turkish - Noun

art

1. back

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