artifex

From ars (“art”) +‎ -fex (“suffix representing a maker or producer”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ti.feks/, [ˈärt̪ɪfɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ti.feks/, [ˈärt̪ifeks]

artifex m or f (genitive artificis); third declension

1. artist, actor
2. craftsman, master (of a craft)

   Synonyms: opifex, faber

   • Vitruvius, De Architectura, Book I, Chapter I, section 3; English translation by Frank Granger

     Neque enim ingenium sine disciplina aut disciplina sine ingenio perfectum artificem potest efficere.

     For neither talent without instruction nor instruction without talent can produce the perfect craftsman.

3. mastermind, schemer

Third-declension noun.

artifex (genitive artificis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. skilled, artistic
2. expert
3. artful, cunning
4. creative

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• “artifex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “artifex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• artifex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• artifex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an accomplished dialectician: disserendi peritus et artifex
    
• artifex in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016