ars

1. plural ofar

• ASR,RAS,RAs,RSA,Ras,SAR,Sar,Sar.,asr,ras

Seear(“scar”).

ars n

1. indefinitegenitivesingular/plural ofar

Seear(“are”).

ars c

1. indefinitegenitivesingular/plural ofar

ars

1. (dated)Alternative form ofarsaused before the definite articlean

In the modern standard language,arsa +an is written together asarsan; in older usage the spellingars an may also be found.

FromProto-Italic*artis, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂r̥tís(“fitting”), from the root*h₂er-(“to join”).^[1]

Cognates includeAvestan𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀(ər^əta,“truth, right”), which in turn descends fromProto-Indo-Iranian*Hr̥tás, andAncient Greekἄρτι(árti,“just, exactly”). Related toarma.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈars/,[ˈärs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈars/,[ˈärs]

ars f (genitiveartis);third declension

1. art,skill,craft,handicraft

   Synonyms:opus,opera,artificium

   • 63CE – 65CE,Seneca the Younger,Epistulae Mōrālēs ad Lūcīlium 65.3:

     Omnisars nātūrae imitātiō est.

     Everyart is imitation of nature.

2. trade,occupation,employment

   Synonym:artificium

3. cunning,artifice,fraud,stratagem

   Synonyms:dēceptiō,fraus,maleficium,perfidia,dolus,stratēgēma

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• ars gratia artis
• artista
• artifex
• iners
• sollers

• arto
• arctō

• Corsican:arte
• Extremaduran:arti
• Franco-Provençal:ârt
• → German:lege artis
• Italian:arte
• Ligurian:arte
• Lombard:aart
• Neapolitan:arte
• Old French:art
  • Middle French:art
    • French:art
      • Haitian Creole:la(< l'art)
      • Icelandic:art(f)
  • Norman:art
  • Walloon:årt
  • → Middle English:art
    • English:art
      • Jamaican Creole:aat
      • Tok Pisin:at
      • → Japanese:アート(āto)
    • Scots:airt
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian:arte
  • Mirandese:arte
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan:art
  • Occitan:art
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician:arte
  • Portuguese:arte
• Old Spanish:
  • Ladino:

    Hebrew script:ארטי

    Latin script:arte

  • Spanish:arte
    • → Basque:arte
    • → Hiligaynon:arte
    • → Ilocano:arte
    • → Tagalog:arte
    • → Waray-Waray:arte
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian:art
  • Ladin:ert
• Sardinian:arti
• Sicilian:arti
  • → Maltese:arti
• Venetan:arte
• → Albanian:art
• → Aromanian:artâ
• → Breton:arz
• → Cornish:art
• → Romanian:artă

• “ars”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ars inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• ars inEnrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025),Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • abstruse studies:studia, quae in reconditis artibus versantur (De Or. 1. 2. 8)
    
  • (ambiguous) to have received a liberal education:optimis studiis orartibus, optimarum artium studiis eruditum esse
    
  • to teach some one letters:erudire aliquem artibus, litteris (buterudire aliquem in iure civili, in re militari)
    
  • system:ratio; disciplina, ratio et disciplina; ars
    
  • (ambiguous) the rules of art; aesthetics:artis praecepta, or also simplyars
    
  • to have no taste for the fine arts:abhorrere ab artibus (opp.delectari artibus)
    
  • the art of painting:ars pingendi, pictura (De Or. 2. 16. 69)
    
  • the art of sculpture:ars fingendi
    
  • the dramatic art:ars ludicra (De Or. 2. 20. 84)
    
  • the art of speaking; oratory:ars dicendi
    
  • to fool a person thoroughly:omnibus artibus aliquem ludificari, eludere
    
  • (ambiguous) to sleep soundly (from fatigue):arte, graviter dormire (ex lassitudine)
    
  • (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) learning, scientific knowledge is flourishing:artium studia orartes vigent (notflorent)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be interested in, have a taste for culture:optimarum artium studio incensum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to have received a liberal education:optimis studiis orartibus, optimarum artium studiis eruditum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to know nothing of logic:disserendi artem nullam habere
    
  • (ambiguous) theoretical, speculative philosophy:philosophia, quae in rerum contemplatione versatur, orquae artis praeceptis continetur
    
  • (ambiguous) to systematise:ad artem redigere aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to systematise:ad rationem, ad artem et praecepta revocare aliquid (De Or. 1. 41)
    
  • (ambiguous) to have been reduced to a system:arte conclusum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very intimately related:arte (artissime) coniunctum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) a work of art:artis opus; opus arte factum orperfectum
    
  • (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) a taste for the fine arts:artium (liberalium) studium, or simplystudium
    
  • (ambiguous) the rules of art; aesthetics:artis praecepta, or also simplyars
    
  • (ambiguous) a connoisseur; a specialist:(artis, artium) intellegens, peritus (opp.idiota, a layman)
    
  • (ambiguous) to learn, study music:artem musicamdiscere, tractare
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very eloquent:dicendi arte florere
    
  • (ambiguous) to reduce law to a system:ius ad artem redigere
    

ars

1. third-personsingular/pluralfutureindicative ofart

FromOld Englishærs,ears, fromProto-West Germanic*ars, fromProto-Germanic*arsaz, fromProto-Indo-European*h₁órsos.

• arce,ers,eres,hars,hers,aars

• IPA^(key):/ˈars/,/ˈɛrs/

ars

1. arse,anus
2. bottom,buttocks

• 1485,Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, inLe Morte Darthur, book XII:

  & thenne he rode after the bore / & thenne syre laūcelot was ware where the bore set hisars to a tree by an hermytage / Thenne sir launcelot ranne atte bore with his spere / & ther with the bore torned hym nemly

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• English:arse,ass
• Scots:ers,airse

• “ărs,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

FromOld Frencharz,artz (plural ofart), fromLatinartēs.

ars

1. (Early Middle English)plural ofart(“(area of) knowledge”)

ars m (masculine pluralars,feminine singulararse,feminine pluralarses)

1. inflection ofardeir:
   1. oblique/nominativemasculinesingularparticiple
   2. oblique/nominativemasculinepluralpastparticiple

FromProto-West Germanic*ars.

ars m

1. arse
2. buttocks when plural
3. backside

• arsdarm
• arswisk

• Middle High German:ars
  • Bavarian:Oasch
  • Cimbrian:aars
  • German:Arsch
  • Hunsrik:Aarsch
  • Luxembourgish:Aasch
  • Pennsylvania German:Aarsch

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

• rass

FromProto-Germanic*arsaz, fromProto-Indo-European*h₁órsos(“arse”).

ars m (genitivears,pluralarsar)

1. arse,anus

• Icelandic:ars
• Faroese:arsur
• Old Swedish:ars
  • ⇒ Swedish:arsel,arsle

Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ars”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive

FromProto-West Germanic*ars.

ars m

1. thearse; thebuttocks oranus

• Middle Low German:ars
  • Dutch Low Saxon:ars,ors
  • German Low German:Aars
  • ⇒by rebracketing:
    • Dutch Low Saxon:nors,mors
    • German Low German:Maars,Moors,Narsch,Närsch,Närs

      Plautdietsch:Noasch

Inherited fromLatinārsus, past participle ofārdeō. CompareItalianarso,Aromanianarsu.

• IPA^(key):/ars/

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ars

1. pastparticiple ofarde

ars m orn (feminine singulararsă,masculine pluralarși,feminine and neuter pluralarse)

1. burnt
2. scorched,parched

• (Lewis)IPA^(key):/ɔs̪/^[1]
• (South Uist)IPA^(key):/ɔ(rˠ)ʃ/^[2]
• (Barra)IPA^(key):[ɔs̪ˠ]^[3]

ars

1. Alternative form ofarsa(“said”)used before vowels

   "Butoil leam sin glè mhath,"ars ise. ―"I would really like that," shesaid.

   Ars an t-uan, "Cha d'rugadh mis' ach o chionn sia mìosan." ―The lambsaid, "I was only born six months ago"

ars

1. indefinitegenitivesingular ofar
2. indefinitegenitiveplural ofar

• -sar,ras

ars

1. (vulgar,anatomy) thearse.