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Yes. It's the Ancient Greek form -- a third declension noun which ends in a consonant. The stem is καλλιτέχνιδ- and when the nominative ending -ς gets added the -δ drops off so you have καλλιτέχνις. But in the oblique cases you see the -δ-, e.g. genitive καλλιτέχνιδος, accusative καλλιτέχνιδα.
Modern Greek rearranged nearly all of those third declension nouns to match first declension nouns, based on the accusative, as in η καλλιτέχνιδα, της καλλιτέχνιδας, την καλλιτέχνιδα rather than η καλλιτέχνις, της καλλιτέχνιδος, την καλλιτέχνιδα.
No -- a καλλιτέχνης is a painter or sculptor or something like that, and those aren't performers.
Bear in mind that in Cyprus καλλιτέχνιδα means (female) stripper so if a young woman wants to avoid awkward questions she will go with the male one. Είμαι μια καλλιτέχνης.
Καλλιτέχνιδα is also not the most common word to use in Greece. A woman will probably refer to herself as καλλιτέχνις but we'd write it with ι because it forms genitive as καλλιτέχνιδος or καλλιτέχνιδας. How would someone refer to a female artist in Cyprus in genitive? Της καλλιτέχνη;
spelt artist wrong , couldn't check spelling or use word bank because , as previously explained , duolingo in answer box will not let me . very frustrating if you can't check what you are doing especially when it is not your native language .
