artifex

From ar(ti) (“art”) +‎ -fex (“suffix representing a maker or producer”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ti.feks/, [ˈar.tɪ.fɛks]

artifex m or f (genitive artificis); third declension

1. artist, actor
2. craftsman, master (of a craft)
   • Vitruvius, De Architectura, Book I, Chapter I, section 3; English translation by Frank Granger

     Neque enim ingenium sine disciplina aut disciplina sine ingenio perfectum artificem potest efficere.

     For neither talent without instruction nor instruction without talent can produce the perfect craftsman.

3. mastermind, schemer

Third declension.

• Italian: artefice

artifex (genitive artificis); third declension

1. skilled, artistic
2. expert
3. artful, cunning
4. creative

Third declension.

• artifex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• artifex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• artifex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• artifex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an accomplished dialectician: disserendi peritus et artifex
    
• artifex in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016