artisan

English

Alternative forms

• artizan (obsolete)

Etymology

From French artisan, from Medieval Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“I instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzən/, /ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹtɪzən/, /ˈɑɹtɪsən/

Noun

artisan (plural artisans)

1. A skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft.
2. A person who displays great dexterity.

Derived terms

• artisanal
• artisanality
• artisanally
• artisanate
• artisanry
• artisanship
• artisan's palsy

 

Related terms

• art
• artist
• artistic

 

Translations

skilled manual worker

• Arabic: حرفي‎ m
• Armenian: արհեստավոր (hy) (arhestavor)
• Bulgarian: занаятчия (bg) (zanajatčija)
• Catalan: artesà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工匠 (zh) (gōngjiàng), 匠人 (jiàngrén), 手藝人 (zh), 手艺人 (zh) (shǒuyìrén)

• Czech: řemeslník (cs) m
• Dutch: ambachtsman (nl) m, ambachtsvrouw f, ambachtswerker m
• Esperanto: metiisto (eo)
• Finnish: käsityöläinen (fi), artesaani (fi)
• French: artisan (fr) m
• German: Handwerker (de) m
• Greek: τεχνίτης (el) m (technítis)

  Ancient: τεχνίτης m (tekhnítēs)

• Hebrew: אומן‎ (he) m (u'man), אומנית‎ f (u'manyt)
• Icelandic: handverksmaður m
• Interlingue: artisan
• Irish: ceardaí m
• Italian: artigiano (it) m

• Japanese: 工匠 (ja) (こうしょう, kōshō), 職人 (ja) (しょくにん, shokunin)
• Latin: artifex m, opifex m
• Macedonian: занаетчија m (zanaetčija)
• Manx: keirdagh m, fer keirdey m
• Old Irish: cerd
• Persian: پیشه‌ور‎ (piševar), صنعت‌گر‎ (san'atgar), هتوخش‎ (hotuxš)
• Polish: rzemieślnik (pl) m, rzemieślniczka f
• Portuguese: artesão (pt) m
• Russian: реме́сленник (ru) m (reméslennik), ма́стер (ru) m (máster)
• Sanskrit: ऋभु (sa) m (ṛbhu)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceàrd
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зана̀тлија m

  Roman: zanàtlija (sh) m

• Slovak: remeselnik m
• Spanish: artesano (es), menestral m (historical)
• Swedish: hantverkare (sv) c
• Turkish: zanaatkar (tr), usta (tr)
• Ukrainian: ремісни́к m (remisnýk)
• Venetian: artexan (vec) m
• Yiddish: בעל־מלאָכה‎ m (balmelokhe)

Adjective

artisan (not comparable)

1. artisanal
   • 2015, Andrea Chesman, The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How:

     Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves).

Further reading

• artisan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• artisan in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• artisan at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Sartain, Sinatra, Taranis, Trainas, antiars, astrain, sartain, tasiRNA, tasirna, tsarian, tsarina

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French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“I instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ti.zɑ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

artisan m (plural artisans, feminine artisane)

1. artisan (manual worker)
2. (figuratively) creator; innovator; inventor

Further reading

• “artisan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).