artificium

Latin

Etymology 1

From artifex, artificis +‎ -ium.

Noun

artificium n (genitive artificiī or artificī); second declension

  1. art, craft, skill, talent, artifice, craftsmanship
  2. profession, trade, an employment
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative artificium artificia
Genitive artificiī
artificī1		 artificiōrum
Dative artificiō artificiīs
Accusative artificium artificia
Ablative artificiō artificiīs
Vocative artificium artificia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms
Descendants

Adjective

artificium

  1. 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[TR1] factum
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