artizan

English

Noun

artizan (plural artizans)

1. Dated spelling of artisan.
   • 1852, Samuel Wilderspin, The Infant System‎^[1]:

     Human education joined to that of nature, may make a good citizen, a skilful artizan, or a well-bred man; but a higher power is wanting in order to produce a Bacon or a Newton.

   • 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck‎^[2]:

     We have been artists if not artizans."

   • 1937, Emerson Stringham, Outline of Patent Law and Guide to Digests, Pacot Publications, page 94:

     "Disclosure" is what the artizan learns from the prior art or what he learns from an application asserted to disclose a novel invention.

   • 1943, Trade Union Bulletin, Volumes 3-4, Western Province and District Council of Trade Unions, page 7:

     If an employer temporarily suspends the employment of a registered artizan, and in consequence of such suspension, the said artizan's total remuneration for any working week is less than £6 the fund shall as soon as practicable after application has been made, pay him an amount equal to the difference between the said remuneration and £6.

   • 1973, Margaret Digby, The Organisation of Fishermen's Co-operatives, Plunkett Foundation for Co-operation Studies, page 78:

     The French fishing industry falls into two, not very clearly distinguished sections; the industrial fisheries, carried on in comparatively large vessels owned by shore-based companies, and the "artizan" or family fisheries carried on in (as a rule) smaller boats owned by their skippers, by family groups or, in recent years, […]

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “artizan”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Further reading

• “artizan,artisan”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• tzarian, tzarina

Middle French

Noun

artizan m (plural artizans)

1. artisan (manual worker)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French artisan.

Noun

artizan m (plural artizani)

1. artisan

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	artizan	artizanul	artizani	artizanii
genitive-dative	artizan	artizanului	artizani	artizanilor
vocative	artizanule		artizanilor