Other forms: artisans
An artisan is a skilled worker who makes things by hand. An artisan baker.
The word has been taken over by marketing, where it now means expensive rather than handmade. A real artisan produces slowly and in small numbers, which is why the price is what it is.
1nounartisanA skilled worker who makes things by hand.
“The artisan who made that gate had one apprentice and no website.”
artisan is a worker.
Italian artigiano comes from Latin ars, skill or craft.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂er-
Latin
artītus — skilled
Vulgar Latin
*artītiānus
Middle French
artisan
English, today
artisan
Built from
Middle French artisan, from Vulgar Latin artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“to instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA