Adjective: artist
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more artist |
| Superlative | most artist |
Sample Sentences
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Nature, to shew that nothing is savage in whatsoever she produceth, causeth oftentimes, even in rudest and most unarted nations, productions of spirits to arise, that confront and wrestle with the most artist productions. [, vol.1, ch.24]
Adjectives inflected like artist
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis
4. Proto-Italic *artis
5. Latin ars
6. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
8. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
9. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
10. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
11. Proto-Hellenic *-tās
12. Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
13. Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
14. Latin -ista
15. Late Latin artistader.
16. French artisteder.
17. English artist
18. From French artiste, from Late Latin artista, from ars (“art”). Doublet of artiste. Displaced native Old English cræftiga. By surface analysis, art + -ist. See: French Adjectives '
artiste'.