artisan

English

Alternative forms

• artizan (obsolete)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzən/, /ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzæn/
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: արհեստավոր (hy) (arhestavor)
• Bulgarian: занаятчия (bg) (zanajatčija)
• Catalan: artesà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工匠 (zh) (gōngjiàng), 匠人 (jiàngrén), 手藝人／手艺人 (zh) (shǒuyìrén), 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:
• Irish: ceardaí m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: artigiano (it) m
• Japanese: 工匠 (ja) (こうしょう, kōshō), 職人 (ja) (しょくにん, shokunin)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “artisan”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “artisan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin *artītiānus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.