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Latin
Etymology
From artificium (“skill”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
artificiōsus (feminine artificiōsa, neuter artificiōsum, comparative artificiōsior, superlative artificiōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- full of skill, skilful, artful, ingenious
- according to the rules of art
- (in a passive sense) made with art; artificial, unnatural
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “artificiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “artificiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- artificiosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to treat with scientific exactness; to classify: artificiose redigere aliquid