Etymology

inartistic

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Today it means: Lacking in artistic ability. Full definition →

English artistic ← French artistique ← Late Latin artista
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishin-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂er-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂értis
  9. Proto-Italic*artis
  10. Latinars
  11. Late Latinartista
  12. Frenchartiste
  13. Frenchartistique
  14. Englishartistic
  15. English todayinartistic

From in- (negative prefix) + artistic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.