artefaktowi

Artefaktowi is the dative singular form of the Polish noun artefakt, meaning artifact. The term artefakt denotes a human-made object, typically of historical, archaeological, or cultural significance, and is used in museums, archaeology, and related disciplines. The form artefaktowi is the dative singular used when the artifact is the indirect object of a verb or the recipient of an action.

The noun artefakt is a borrowed term, coming to Polish from German Artefakt, which in turn derives from Latin artefactus. In Polish spelling and pronunciation, artefaktowi follows standard masculine-declension patterns for nouns ending in -kt, yielding the -owi ending in the dative singular.

In practice, artefaktowi appears in contexts where the artifact is treated as a participant in an action: for example, przypisano artefaktowi status historyczny (they assigned the artifact a historical status), or zwrócono uwagę artefaktowi na jego nietypowy kształt (attention was drawn to the artifact regarding its unusual shape). In digital and imaging domains, the term artefakt also refers to unintended distortions or anomalies; artefaktowi can occur in metaphorical or cataloguing language when describing such items.

See also: artefakt, archaeology, museum cataloging, digital artifacts.