historia
Galician
noun
Definitions
- history the aggregate of past events
- history the branch of knowledge that studies the past
- history a set of events involving an entity
- history a record or narrative description of past events
- story a sequence of real or fictional events
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin historia (history, story, narrative, illustration) derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (learning through research, narration of what is learned, history, inquiry, examination).
Origin
Ancient Greek
ἱστορία
Gloss
learning through research, narration of what is learned, history, inquiry, examination
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- historio- English
- history English
- historia Finnish
- historia Latin
- storia Latin
- história Hungarian
- historia Italian
- istoria Italian
- storia Italian
- histoire French
- historia Spanish, Castilian
- ἱστορία Ancient Greek
- ἱστορίᾱ Ancient Greek
- *weyd- Proto-Indo-European
- historie Norwegian Bokmål
- estória Portuguese
- história Portuguese
- historia Polish
- historie Norwegian Nynorsk
- story Middle English
- stair Irish
- historie Danish
- historie Czech
- أسطوري Arabic
- أُسْطُورَة Arabic
- *estoree Old French
- estoire Old French
- estorie Old French
- historie Old French
- historien Old French
- història Catalan, Valencian
- istorie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- historie Middle Dutch
- היסטוריה Hebrew (modern)
- historia Swahili
- istòria Occitan
- istorgia Romansh
- historia Asturian
- istorie Friulian
- storie Friulian
- estoria Old Occitan
- storia Venetian
- historia Basque
- istoria Ladino
- ისტორია Old Georgian
- stuoria Istriot
- *wístōr Proto-Hellenic
- ystyr Middle Welsh
- historyjŏ Silesian
- estória Extremaduran
- ιστορίαν Pontic Greek