ars

Meaning

1. (declension-3, feminine) art, skill, craft, handicraft
2. (declension-3, feminine) trade, occupation, employment
3. (declension-3, feminine) cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem

Concepts

art

🎨

craft

theory

ability

skill

tactic

tactics

work of art

science

trade

strategem

trick

skill method

technique

character

conduct

creation

power

ruse

Synonyms

potentia

potestas

habilitas

scientia

calliditas

solertia

prudentia

sollers acumen

facultas

fabrica

peritia

Translations

arte

🎨

arte

🎨

arte

🎨

τέχνη

Kunst

🎨

kunst

🎨

art

🎨

sanat

🎨

فُنُون

Theorie

فَنّ

teoria

art

🎨

فن

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈars]

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *artis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥tís (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).
Cognates include Avestan 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀 (ər^əta, “truth, right”), which in turn descends from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr̥tás, and Ancient Greek ἄρτι (árti, “just, exactly”). Related to arma.