artifice
‘workmanship, the making of something by craft or skill’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. artyfice, artyfyce < F. artifice ‘skill, cunning’ < Lat. artificium ‘a profession, trade, employment,craft; a work of art’ < artifex ‘craftsman, artist, master of an art’ < ars ‘art’ < ar(ə)-ti- < art < ar- < Tamil ār
Semantic evolution: 1425 technical skill, art; 1534 the making of anything by craft or skill; 1656 clever stratagem, trick.