artifice
French
noun
Definitions
- artifice, trick, ploy
- (literary) device
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin artificium.
Origin
Latin
artificium
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- artifice English
- artificed English
- artificial English
- artifex Latin
- artificialis Latin
- artificium Latin
- artificiālis Latin
- artifiziell German
- artificiale Italian
- artificiere Italian
- artificio Italian
- artificialiser French
- artificiel French
- artificiellement French
- artificier French
- artificio Spanish, Castilian
- *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European
- artifício Portuguese
- artifici Catalan, Valencian
- artifico Ido
- artifice Middle French