Etymology

Britart

B3R1I1T1A1R1T1

Today it means: The work of the Young British Artists, a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors, and installation artists who came to prominence in the United Kingdom in the 1990s. Full definition →

English art ← Middle English art ← Old French art
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The story

  1. EnglishBrit-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂er-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂értis
  4. Proto-Italic*artis
  5. Latinars
  6. Latinartem
  7. Old Frenchart
  8. Middle Englishart
  9. Englishart
  10. English todayBritart

From Brit- + art.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.