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artisan - 4 dictionary results

ar⋅ti⋅san

[ahr-tuh-zuhn]
–noun
a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson.

Origin:
1530–40; < F < It artigiano, equiv. to L artīt(us) trained in arts and crafts (ptp. of artīre; see art 1 , -ite 2 ) + It -iano (< L -iānus) -ian


ar⋅ti⋅san⋅al, adjective
ar⋅ti⋅san⋅ship, noun


See artist.
ar·ti·san   (är'tĭ-zən, -sən)   
n.  A skilled manual worker; a craftsperson.

[Probably French, from Italian artigiano, from Vulgar Latin *artitiānus, from Latin artītus, skilled in the arts, past participle of artīre, to instruct in the arts, from ars, art-, art; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]
ar'ti·san·al (är'tĭ-zə-nəl, -sə-, är'tĭ-zān'əl) adj., ar'ti·san·ship' n.

Artisan

Ar"ti*san\ (?; 277), n. [F. artisan, fr. L. artitus skilled in arts, fr. ars, artis, art: cf. It. artigiano. See Art, n.]

1. One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist. [Obs.]

2. One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic.

This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can . . . compensate his additional toil and fatigue. --Hume.

Syn: Artificer; artist.

Usage: Artisan, Artist, Artificer. An artist is one who is skilled in some one of the fine arts; an artisan is one who exercises any mechanical employment. A portrait painter is an artist; a sign painter is an artisan, although he may have the taste and skill of an artist. The occupation of the former requires a fine taste and delicate manipulation; that of the latter demands only an ordinary degree of contrivance and imitative power. An artificer is one who requires power of contrivance and adaptation in the exercise of his profession. The word suggest neither the idea of mechanical conformity to rule which attaches to the term artisan, nor the ideas of refinement and of peculiar skill which belong to the term artist.
Language Translation for : artisan
Spanish: artesano,
German: der, *die Handwerker(in),
Japanese: 職人

artisan 
1538, from It. artesano, from V.L. artitianus, from L. artitus, pp. of artire "to instruct in the arts," from ars (gen. artis) "art" (see art (n.)).
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