estoire

Old French

Etymology

From Latin historia.

Noun

estoire oblique singular, f (oblique plural estoires, nominative singular estoire, nominative plural estoires)

1. history
   • circa 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:

     La senestre, selonc l'estoire,
     senefie la vainne gloire
     qui vint de fause ypocrisie.
     Et la destre, que senefie ?
     Charité, qui de sa bone oevre
     pas ne se vante, ençois la coevre[.]

     The left, according to history
     Represents vainglory
     Which comes from false hypocrisy
     And the right, what does that represent?
     Charity, which does not
     boast about its good work

2. story; tale

Descendants

• French: histoire
• Norman: histouaire, histouaithe (Jersey); histouère (continental Normandy); istwer (Sark), histouère, istwer

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Portuguese

Verb

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