artisan

• artizan (obsolete)

From French artisan, from Medieval Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“I instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzən/, /ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹtɪzən/, /ˈɑɹtɪsən/

artisan (plural artisans)

1. A skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft.
2. A person who displays great dexterity.

artisan (not comparable)

1. artisanal
   • 2015, Andrea Chesman, The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How

     Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves).

• artisan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• artisan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• artisan at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Sartain, Sinatra, Taranis, Trainas, antiars, astrain, sartain, tasiRNA, tasirna, tsarian, tsarina

From Medieval Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“I instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ti.zɑ̃/

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artisan m (plural artisans, feminine artisane)

1. artisan (manual worker)
2. (figuratively) creator; innovator; inventor

• “artisan” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).