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3-letter words (3 found)

ARS,RAS,SAR,

2-letter words (2 found)

AR,AS,

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ars ras asr sar rsa sra

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Definitions and meaning of ars

ars

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 (ərəta, “truth, right”), which in turn descends from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr̥tás, and Ancient Greek ἄρτι (árti, “just, exactly”). Related to arma.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) 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
  2. trade, occupation, employment
    Synonym: artificium
  3. cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem
    Synonyms: dēceptiō, fraus, maleficium, perfidia, dolus, stratēgēma

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

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
  • Venetian: 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.
  • 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
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

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

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/

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

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.

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