artesian

See also: Artesian

English

Etymology

From French puits artésien (“artesian well”), from the former province of Artois, where the technique of artesian wells was elaborated by monks in the 12th century.

The place name is from Old French Arteis, from Atrebates, a pre-Roman Gallo-Germanic tribe in northwestern Gaul, from Proto-Celtic *ad-treb-a-t-es (“inhabitants”), from *trebā (“home, building”); see also Middle Breton treff (“city”), Welsh tref (“town”), and Old Irish treb (“farm, building”) – all from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“settlement”) (same source as Old English þorp (“village”), Lithuanian troba (“house”), and Occitan trevar (“to live in a village or house”)). See also Old Irish aittrebaid (“inhabitant”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑɹˈtiʒən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈtiːʒən/
• Hyphenation: ar‧te‧sian

Adjective

artesian (not comparable)

1. (of a water supply) Rising to the surface under its own hydrostatic pressure.
2. Misspelling of artisan.

Derived terms

• artesian aquifer
• artesian bore
• artesian spring
• artesian water
• artesian well
• nonartesian

 

Adjective

artesian

1. Misspelling of artisan.
   • 1997, Technical Report of the Sensitization Workshop on Culture, Gender & Development for Eastern & Southern African English Speaking Countries:

     Thus, it was offering training to these artesians, governmental and non-governmental organizations in wood, carpet, weaving, pottery, metal, bamboo works for three and six months.

   • 2022 April 25, El-Mehairy, Medical Doctors: A Study of Role Concept and Job Satisfaction. The Egyptian Case, BRILL, →ISBN, page 82:

     Whereas, the opposite view was associated with the petit bourgeoisie which represented the small-scale productive sector of poor peasants, small land-owners and tenants, artesians and owners of small workshops […]

Translations

rising to the surface

• Albanian: artezian (sq)
• Catalan: artesià
• Finnish: arteesinen
• French: artésien (fr)
• German: artesisch (de)
• Greek: αρτεσιανός (el) (artesianós)
• Indonesian: artesis (id)
• Irish: airtéiseach
• Malay: artesian, artois
• Polish: artezyjski (pl) (only in certain phrases)
• Portuguese: artesiano (pt) m
• Spanish: artesiano

Anagrams

• Erastian, antisera, arsinate, ratanies, resinata, santeria, santería