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Translation

artificial, man-made

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Word origin

Built inside Esperanto from arte ('by skill', the adverb of arto) and farita ('made', the passive participle of fari). Latin arte factum, made by skill, is the same phrase and the source of English artefact.

Origin
Esperanto
Root
arte + farita
English cognates
artefact, artifice

Examples

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That is an artificial flower, not a real one.

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The lake next to the factory is man-made.

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Artificial light is never as good as the sun.

Take it apart and it says what it means: made by art. is the adverb of , the passive participle of , and the compound is one adjective by the ordinary rules. That transparency is the point - a learner who knows and can read the word without ever having met it.

is one of the phrases in circulation for artificial intelligence, alongside . The movement has not settled on one, which is the sort of thing a small language gets to argue about.

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This word is taught in chapter 18, lesson 4: artefarita, nervo, intertempe and 7 more words.