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Latin
Etymology 1
From artifex, artificis + -ium.
Noun
artificium n (genitive artificiī or artificī); second declension
- art, craft, skill, talent, artifice, craftsmanship
- profession, trade, an employment
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Adjective
artificium
- genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of artifex
References
- “artificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “artificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- artificium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- artificium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to give a scientific explanation of a thing: artificio et via tradere aliquid
- a master-piece of classical work: opus summo artificio factum