art

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See also Art, árt, ärt, and ært

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Etymology 1 [edit]

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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 [edit]

art (countable and uncountable; plural arts)

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  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (uncountable) Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
  2. (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
    There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
  3. (uncountable) Activity intended to make something special.
  4. (uncountable) A re-creation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value judgments.
  5. (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
  6. (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
  7. (uncountable, printing) Artwork.
  8. (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
  9. (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
  10. (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
    • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 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.
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Quotations [edit]
  • 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 [edit]
terms derived from art
Translations [edit]
human effort
conscious production or arrangement
activity
re-creation
study
aesthetic value
artwork
field or category of art
nonscientific branch of learning
skill
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Etymology 2 [edit]

From Middle English, from Old English eart (“(thou) art”), second-person singular present indicative of beon-wesan, from Proto-Germanic *ar-t (“(thou) art", originally, "(thou) becamest”), second-person singular preterite indicative form of *iranan (“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 [edit]

art

  1. (archaic) Second-person singular simple present tense indicative of be.
    How great thou art!

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Anagrams [edit]

Albanian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowed from Latin ars, artem.

Noun [edit]

art m (definite singular arti)

  1. art

Catalan [edit]

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Noun [edit]

art m, f (plural arts)

  1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

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Cornish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin ars, artis (“art”).

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

art m (plural artys)

  1. art

Crimean Tatar [edit]

Noun [edit]

art

  1. back

Synonyms [edit]

Danish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Middle Low German art.

Noun [edit]

art c (singular definite arten, plural indefinite arter)

  1. kind
  2. nature
  3. species

Inflection [edit]

    Inflection of art
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative art arten arter arterne
genitive arts artens arters arternes

French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

art m (plural arts)

  1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

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Anagrams [edit]

Latvian [edit]

Art
Art ar traktoru

Etymology [edit]

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”) (cf. Lithuanian artójas), Old Church Slavonic орати (orati), Russian dialectal or dated орать (orát’), Belarusian араць (aráts’), Ukrainian орати (oráty), Bulgarian ора (orá), Czech orati, Polish orać, Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (arjan), Old Norse erja, Hittite ẖarra- (“to crush; (passive form) to disappear”), ẖarš- (“to tear open; to plow”), Ancient Greek ἀρόω, Latin arō.[1]

Pronunciation [edit]

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Verb [edit]

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 [edit]

conjugation of art
INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) IMPERATIVE
(pavēles izteiksme)
Present
(tagadne)		 Past
(pagātne)		 Future
(nākotne)
1st pers. sg. es aru aru aršu —
2nd pers. sg. tu ar ari arsi ar
3rd pers. sg. viņš, viņa ar ara ars lai ar
1st pers. pl. mēs aram arām arsim arsim
2nd pers. pl. jūs arat arāt arsiet,
arsit		 ariet
3rd pers. pl. viņi, viņas ar ara ars lai ar
CONJUNCTIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) PARTICIPLES (divdabji)
Present arot Present Active 1 (Adj.) arošs
Past esot aris Present Active 2 (Adv.) ardams
Future aršot Present Active 3 (Adv.) arot
Imperative lai arot Present Active 4 (Obj.) aram
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) Past Active aris
Present artu Present Passive arams
Past būtu aris Past Passive arts
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) NOMINAL FORMS
Indicative (būt) jāar Infinitive (nenoteiksme) art
Conjunctive 1 esot jāar Negative Infinitive neart
Conjunctive 2 jāarot Verbal noun aršana

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References [edit]

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns. 1992, 2001. Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca. Rīga: AVOTS. ISBN 9984700127.

Maltese [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Arabic ارض (’arɖ).

Noun [edit]

art f

  1. earth

Middle French [edit]

Noun [edit]

art m (plural ars)

  1. art

Old Irish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

Noun [edit]

art m

  1. bear

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Swedish [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

art c

  1. species

Declension [edit]

Declension of art
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative art arten arter arterna
genitive arts artens arters arternas

Turkish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

Noun [edit]

art

  1. back
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