English
artisticness
Artisticness comes from French artistique ‘artistic’, from Latin ars ‘cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂er-‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂értisreconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*artisreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEars‘cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem’
- Late Latinmodernartista
- Frenchc. 1600–presentartiste‘artist’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentartistique‘artistic’
- English1500–presentartistic
- Englishearliest quotation 1912artisticness
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂er-‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂értisreconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*artisreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEars‘cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem’
- Late Latinmodernartista
- Frenchc. 1600–presentartiste‘artist’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentartistique‘artistic’
- English1500–presentartistic
- Englishearliest quotation 1912artisticness
Earliest quotation: 1912, The Rotarian: “The realization of the vast possibilities that lie in…”
A compound of artistic + -ness
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
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Latin ars ‘cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem’
Late Latin artista
French artiste ‘artist’
French artistique
English artistic
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
order, reason, ready, rate, army, arm, article, ordinary, ratio, alarm, harmony, coordinate, armor, coordination, subordinate, anarchy, ornament, ordination, ornate, arthritis, harmonic, articulate, harmonious, arithmetic, adorn, ordinate, armament, ordinator, ordinal, aristocratic, articulation, armadillo, harmonize, rime, ordain, rta, armature, ordo, archon, orn, 75 more
through Proto-Italic *artis
through Latin ars ‘cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem’
through English artistic
Today it means
noun The quality of being artistic.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- / artisticness