Etymology

unartistic

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Today it means: Not artistic. 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-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂er-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₂értis
  10. Proto-Italic*artis
  11. Latinars
  12. Late Latinartista
  13. Frenchartiste
  14. Frenchartistique
  15. Englishartistic
  16. English todayunartistic

From un- + artistic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.