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)

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

Derived terms

artesian aquifer
artesian bore
artesian spring
artesian water
artesian well

Translations

rising to the surface

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

Anagrams

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