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artificum

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

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.4: … appellat, delectare possent, unum Cupidinis marmoreum Praxiteli; nimirum didici etiam, dum in istum inquiro, artificum nomina. idem, opinor, artifex eiusdem modi Cupidinem fecit illum qui est Thespiis, propter quem Thespiae visu …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.4.a: Artificum scaenicorum studium amoremque inhonestum probrosumque esse; et super ea re verba Aristotelis philosophi adscripta.

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.