artus

Inherited from Proto-Italic *artos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥-tó-s (“fitted”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join, fit (together)”). Cognates include Sanskrit ऋत (ṛtá, “order; right, etc.”) and Avestan 𐬀𐬴𐬀 (aṣ̌a, “truth”).^[1]

• arctus (erroneous)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈar.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈar.tus]

artus (feminine arta, neuter artum, comparative artior, superlative artissimus); first/second-declension adjective

2. narrow, close, fitted, confined, dense
3. (figuratively) severe, strict, scanty, brief

First/second-declension adjective.

• (narrow): angustus

• Italian: arto

Inherited from Proto-Italic *artus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r-tú-s (“that which is fit together; juncture, ordering”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join, fit (together)”) (and thus ultimately from the same root as the "close" sense of Etymology 1).^[2]

Cognates include Sanskrit ऋतु (ṛtú, “right time, order, rule”), Ancient Greek ἀρτύς (artús, “arranging, arrangement”) and Old Armenian արդ (ard, “ornament, shape”).^[2] From the same root also ars, artis (“art”) and arma (“armor”).

artus m (genitive artūs); fourth declension

2. (anatomy, usually in the plural) a joint
3. (figuratively) sinew, strength, power
4. (poetic) the limbs

Fourth-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ubus or neuter, dative/ablative plural in -ubus).

• Italian: arto

• “artus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “artus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "artus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “artus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to tremble in every limb: omnibus artubus contremiscere
    
  • to fall fast asleep: artus somnus aliquem complectitur (Rep. 6. 10)
    
  • (ambiguous) to sleep soundly (from fatigue): arte, graviter dormire (ex lassitudine)
    
  • (ambiguous) theoretical, speculative philosophy: philosophia, quae in rerum contemplatione versatur, or quae artis praeceptis continetur
    
  • (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) 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 be very eloquent: dicendi arte florere
    

artus

1. accusative plural masculine of arts