Etymology

artification

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Today it means: The transformation of something usually considered non-art into art. Full definition →

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

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

From art + -ification.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.