artificem

artificem is a Latin form of artifex, meaning “artist, craftsman, artisan; master (of an art)”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.5: … quaedam more Atheniensium virginum reposita in capitibus sustinebant; Canephoroe ipsae vocabantur; sed earum artificem —quem? quemnam? recte admones—Polyclitum esse dicebant. Messanam ut quisque nostrum venerat, haec visere sole …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 14.90.27: Non est, inquam, instrumentorum ad usus necessarios opifex. Quid illi tam parvola adsignas? Artificem vides vitae. Alias quidem artes sub dominio habet. Nam cui vita, illi vitam ornantia quoque serviunt; ceterum ad beatum statum tendit, illo ducit, illo vias aperit.

All forms of artifex (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.