@Cyborus@social.cartoon-aa.xyz
2026-09-12 17:58 UTC
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@hsza@social.tudbut.de 2026-09-12 17:59
@Cyborus@social.cartoon-aa.xyz @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club would “artifice” be a more direct counterpart to “artificial”
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@Cyborus@social.cartoon-aa.xyz 2026-09-12 18:19
@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club specifically facio + -s => -fex ars- + -fex => artifex artifex + -ium => artificium artificium + -alis => artificialis artificialis => artificial (Old French, then Middle English) and facio => factum ars- + factum => artefactum artefactum => artefatto (Italian) artefatto => artifact (English) ars meaning "art" or "skill", "facio" meaning "to do", so they both ultimately come from something meaning "thing done via skill". If you go back to PIE they both come from words together meaning "to fit/join" and "to do", so kinda "thing made by fitting things together"
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@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club 2026-09-12 18:00
@Cyborus@social.cartoon-aa.xyz (FWIW, I never looked it up. They looked plausible, so I went with it, like a "good" "AI" would do, O:))