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Basque
Etymology
Originally millet, but, with the displacement of millet by maize as a staple cereal in the 16th–17th centuries, the name was transferred to the somewhat similar-looking maize.
Pronunciation
Noun
arto inan
- corn, maize
Declension
Declension of arto (inanimate, ending in vowel)
Esperanto
Etymology
From French art, Italian arte, English art, from Latin ars.
Pronunciation
Noun
arto (accusative singular arton, plural artoj, accusative plural artojn)
- art
Li studos la artojn, ĉefe literaturo kaj pentrado.- He will study the arts, mainly literature and painting.
Derived terms
Ido
Etymology
From Esperanto arto, from English art, French art, Italian arte, Spanish arte, ultimately from Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.
Pronunciation
Noun
arto (plural arti)
- art
Derived terms
Italian
Etymology
From Latin artus.
Pronunciation
Noun
arto m (plural arti)
- limb
Anagrams
Javanese
Noun
arto
- Nonstandard spelling of arta.
Ladino
Adjective
arto (Latin spelling, feminine arta, masculine plural artos, feminine plural artas)
- full, sated
Related terms
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From artus (“close, narrow, confined; strict, severe, brief”) + -ō (verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
Verb
artō (present infinitive artāre, perfect active artāvī, supine artātum); first conjugation
- (literally) to draw or press close together, fit, compress, contract, tighten
- (figurative) to contract, straiten, limit, curtail, reduce
- (in general) to finish, conclude
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Conjugation
Derived terms
References
- “arto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “arto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- arto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the sciences; the fine arts: optima studia, bonae, optimae, liberales, ingenuae artes, disciplinae
- learning, scientific knowledge is flourishing: artium studia or artes vigent (not florent)
- profound scientific education: litterae interiores et reconditae, artes reconditae
- the usual subjects taught to boys: artes, quibus aetas puerilis ad humanitatem informari solet
- tricks of a demagogue: artes populares
- (ambiguous) to reduce a thing to its theoretical principles; to apply theory to a thing: ad artem, ad rationem revocare aliquid (De Or. 2. 11. 44)
- (ambiguous) to know nothing of logic: disserendi artem nullam habere
- (ambiguous) to systematise: ad artem redigere aliquid
- (ambiguous) to systematise: ad rationem, ad artem et praecepta revocare aliquid (De Or. 1. 41)
- (ambiguous) to follow an artistic profession, practise an art: artem exercere
- (ambiguous) to teach an art: artem tradere, docere
- (ambiguous) to profess an art: artem profiteri
- (ambiguous) to learn, study music: artem musicam discere, tractare
- (ambiguous) to reduce law to a system: ius ad artem redigere
Latvian
Participle
arto
- inflection of artais:
- vocative/accusative/instrumental singular masculine/feminine
- genitive plural masculine/feminine