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artibus

artibus is a Latin form of ars, meaning “skill, art; craft”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun.

Found 353 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.47: … tam antiquo, tam sancto, tam religioso manus impias ac sacrilegas adferre conatus es? si in pueritia non iis artibus ac disciplinis institutus eras ut ea quae litteris mandata sunt disceres atque cognosceres, ne postea quidem, …

Ovid, Amores 2.10.6: Artibus in dubio est haec sit an illa prior.

All forms of ars (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.