artificium

Latin

Etymology 1

From artifex, artificis +‎ -ium.

Noun

artificium n (genitive artificiī or artificī); second declension

1. art, craft, skill, talent, artifice, craftsmanship
2. profession, trade, an employment

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	artificium	artificia
Genitive	artificiī artificī1	artificiōrum
Dative	artificiō	artificiīs
Accusative	artificium	artificia
Ablative	artificiō	artificiīs
Vocative	artificium	artificia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• artificialis
• artificiosus

Descendants

• Asturian: artificiu
• Catalan: artifici
• English: artifice
• French: artifice
• Galician: artificio
• Italian: artificio
• Occitan: artifici
• Portuguese: artifício
• Romanian: artificiu
• Spanish: artificio

Etymology 2

Adjective

artificium

1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of artifex

References

• “artificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “artificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• artificium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• artificium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give a scientific explanation of a thing: artificio et via tradere aliquid
    
  • a master-piece of classical work: opus summo artificio[TR1] factum