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c.1225, but no later than 1231, "skill as a result of learning or practice," from Old French art, from Latin artem, (nom. ars) "art, skill, craft," from Proto Indo European ar-ti- (Sanskrit. rtih "manner, mode;" Greek. arti "just," artios "complete;" Armenian arnam"make," Germanic art "manner, mode"), from base ar-"fit together, join" In Middle European usually with sense of "skill in scholarship and learning" (c.1305), especially in the seven sciences, or liberal arts (divided into the trivium -- grammar, logic, rhetoric -- and the quadrivium --arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy).

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