histoire
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French histoire, from Old French istorie (ca. 1100), borrowed from Latin historia, itself from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (mute h) IPA(key): /is.twaʁ/
Audio (France (Paris)); “l'histoire”: (file) Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file) Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) - Rhymes: -aʁ
Noun
[edit]histoire f (plural histoires)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Haitian Creole: istwa
Further reading
[edit]- “histoire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]histoire
- alternative form of historie
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- Rhymes:French/aʁ
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