ars

ars

1. plural of ar

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

See ar (“scar”).

ars n

1. indefinite genitive singular/plural of ar

See ar (“are”).

ars c

1. indefinite genitive singular/plural of ar

ars

1. (dated) Alternative form of arsa used before the definite article an

In the modern standard language, arsa + an is written together as arsan; in older usage the spelling ars an may also be found.

From Proto-Italic *artis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥tís (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

Cognates include Avestan 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀 (ər^əta, “truth, right”), which in turn descends from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr̥tás, and Ancient Greek ἄρτι (árti, “just, exactly”). Related to arma.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ars/, [ärs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ars/, [ärs]

ars f (genitive artis); third declension

1. art, skill, craft, handicraft

   Synonyms: opus, opera, artificium

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

     Omnis ars nātūrae imitātiō est.

     Every art 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)
  • 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
• Venetian: arte
• → Albanian: art
• → Aromanian: artâ
• → Breton: arz
• → Cornish: art
• → Romanian: artă

• “ars”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ars in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• ars in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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 or artibus, optimarum artium studiis eruditum esse
    
  • to teach some one letters: erudire aliquem artibus, litteris (but erudire aliquem in iure civili, in re militari)
    
  • system: ratio; disciplina, ratio et disciplina; ars
    
  • (ambiguous) the rules of art; aesthetics: artis praecepta, or also simply ars
    
  • 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 or artes vigent (not florent)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be interested in, have a taste for culture: optimarum artium studio incensum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to have received a liberal education: optimis studiis or artibus, 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, or quae 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 or perfectum
    
  • (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 simply studium
    
  • (ambiguous) the rules of art; aesthetics: artis praecepta, or also simply ars
    
  • (ambiguous) a connoisseur; a specialist: (artis, artium) intellegens, peritus (opp. idiota, a layman)
    
  • (ambiguous) to learn, study music: artem musicam discere, tractare
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very eloquent: dicendi arte florere
    
  • (ambiguous) to reduce law to a system: ius ad artem redigere
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 55

ars

1. third-person singular/plural future indicative of art

From Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érsos.

• arce, ers, eres, hars, hers, aars

• IPA^(key): /ˈars/, /ˈɛrs/

ars

1. arse, anus
2. bottom, buttocks

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

  & thenne he rode after the bore / & thenne syre laūcelot was ware where the bore set his ars 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.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old French arz, artz (plural of art), from Latin artēs.

ars

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

ars m (masculine plural ars, feminine singular arse, feminine plural arses)

1. inflection of ardeir:
   1. oblique/nominative masculine singular participle
   2. oblique/nominative masculine plural past participle

From Proto-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

From Proto-Germanic *arsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁orsos (“arse”).

ars m (genitive ars, plural arsar)

1. arse, anus

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

“ars”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-West Germanic *ars.

ars m

1. the arse; the buttocks or anus

• 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 from Latin ārsus, past participle of ārdeō. Compare Italian arso, Aromanian arsu.

• IPA^(key): /ars/

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ars

1. past participle of arde

ars m or n (feminine singular arsă, masculine plural arși, feminine and neuter plural arse)

1. burnt
2. scorched, parched

ars

1. Alternative form of arsa used before vowels

   "Bu toil leam sin glè mhath," ars ise. ― "I would really like that," she said.

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

ars

1. indefinite genitive singular of ar
2. indefinite genitive plural of ar

• -sar, ras

ars

1. (vulgar, anatomy) the arse.