Etymology

microartist

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Today it means: A person who creates extremely tiny artworks. Full definition →

English artist ← French artiste ← Late Latin artista
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-der.?
  2. Ancient Greekμῑκρός (mīkrós)
  3. Ancient Greekμῑκρο- (mīkro-)
  4. Englishmicro-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂er-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂értis
  7. Proto-Italic*artis
  8. Latinars
  9. Late Latinartista
  10. Frenchartiste
  11. Englishartist
  12. English todaymicroartist

From micro- + artist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.