ars

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ars"

English

Noun

ars

1. plural of ar

Anagrams

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

Danish

Etymology 1

See ar (“scar”).

Noun

ars n

1. indefinite genitive singular/plural of ar

Etymology 2

See ar (“are”).

Noun

ars c

1. indefinite genitive singular/plural of ar

Irish

Verb

ars

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

Usage notes

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

Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	ars	artēs
genitive	artis	artium
dative	artī	artibus
accusative	artem	artēs artīs
ablative	arte	artibus
vocative	ars	artēs

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• arto
• arctō

Descendants

• 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
• Venetan: arte
• → Albanian: art
• → Aromanian: artâ
• → Breton: arz
• → Cornish: art
• → Romanian: artă

References

• “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^[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 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

Latvian

Verb

ars

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• arce, ers, eres, hars, hers, aars

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈars/, /ˈɛrs/

Noun

ars

1. arse, anus
2. bottom, buttocks

Quotations

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

  & 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

  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• English: arse, ass
• Scots: ers, airse

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

ars

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

Old French

Verb

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

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ars.

Noun

ars m

1. arse
2. buttocks when plural
3. backside

Declension

Declension of ars (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	ars	arsa
accusative	ars	arsa
genitive	arses	arso
dative	arse	arsum
instrumental	arsu	—

Derived terms

• arsdarm
• arswisk

Descendants

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

References

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

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• rass

Etymology

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

Noun

ars m (genitive ars, plural arsar)

1. arse, anus

Declension

  Declension of ars (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ars	arsinn	arsar	arsarnir
accusative	ars	arsinn	arsa	arsana
dative	arsi	arsinum	ǫrsum	ǫrsunum
genitive	ars	arsins	arsa	arsanna

Descendants

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

References

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

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ars.

Noun

ars m

1. the arse; the buttocks or anus

Descendants

• 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

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ars/

• Audio:

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Verb

ars

1. past participle of arde

Adjective

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

1. burnt
2. scorched, parched

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	ars		arsă		arși	arse
	definite	arsul		arsa		arșii	arsele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	ars		arse		arși	arse
	definite	arsului		arsei		arșilor	arselor

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

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"

Swedish

Noun

ars

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

Anagrams

• -sar, ras

Tok Pisin

Noun

ars

1. (vulgar, anatomy) the arse.