artificiosus

== Latin == === Etymology === From artificium (“skill”) + -ōsus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ar.tɪ.fɪ.kiˈoː.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ar.ti.fi.t͡ʃiˈɔː.s̬us] === Adjective === artificiōsus (feminine artificiōsa, neuter artificiōsum, comparative artificiōsior, superlative artificiōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective full of skill, skilful, artful, ingenious according to the rules of art (in a passive sense) made with art; artificial, unnatural ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “artificiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “artificiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “artificiosus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.