historia

See also: história, historiá, historía, and història

Asturian

Alternative forms

• hestoria
• historica

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin historia.

Noun

historia f ‎(plural histories)

1. history
2. story

Related terms

• históricu

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Esperanto

Adjective

historia ‎(accusative singular historian, plural historiaj, accusative plural historiajn)

1. historical (relating to history)
2. historic (of great importance)

Related terms

• historie
• historio

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhistoriɑ/
• Hyphenation: his‧to‧ri‧a

Noun

historia

1. history

Declension

Inflection of historia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		historia	historiat
genitive		historian	historioiden historioitten
partitive		historiaa	historioita
illative		historiaan	historioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		historia	historiat
accusative	nom.	historia	historiat
	gen.	historian
genitive		historian	historioiden historioitten historiainrare
partitive		historiaa	historioita
inessive		historiassa	historioissa
elative		historiasta	historioista
illative		historiaan	historioihin
adessive		historialla	historioilla
ablative		historialta	historioilta
allative		historialle	historioille
essive		historiana	historioina
translative		historiaksi	historioiksi
instructive		—	historioin
abessive		historiatta	historioitta
comitative		—	historioineen

Derived terms

hissa historiallinen historiallisesti

historiallisperäinen historiallisuus historiikki

historiografia historioida historioitsija

historisismi historismi

Compounds

aatehistoria asutushistoria esihistoria henkilöhistoria historiakirja historiakäsitys historiamaalaus historianfilosofia historiankirja historiankirjoittaja historiankirjoitus historiankäsitys historianmukainen

historianopettaja historiantakainen historiantutkija historiantunti historiantutkimus historianvastainen historiateos historiatiede kehityshistoria kielihistoria kirjallisuudenhistoria kirjallisuushistoria

kirkkohistoria kulttuurihistoria kärsimyshistoria luonnonhistoria lähihistoria maailmanhistoria maakuntahistoria makrohistoria mikrohistoria musiikinhistoria naishistoria oikeushistoria oppihistoria

paikallishistoria pitäjänhistoria sosiaalihistoria sotahistoria sukuhistoria syntyhistoria taidehistoria taloushistoria tieteenhistoria työhistoria varhaishistoria äännehistoria

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Interlingua

Noun

historia ‎(plural historias)

1. history

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Latin

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἱστορία ‎(historía, “learning through research, narration of what is learned”), from ἱστορέω ‎(historéō, “to learn through research, to inquire”), from ἵστωρ ‎(hístōr, “the one who knows, the expert, the judge”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hisˈto.ri.a/, [hɪsˈtɔ.ri.a]

Noun

historia f ‎(genitive historiae); first declension

1. history
   • 1719, Johann Jakob Brucker:

     Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam Doctrinae Logicae de Ideis

     An Essay Introducing the History of the Logical Doctrine of Ideas

2. account
3. story

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	historia	historiae
genitive	historiae	historiārum
dative	historiae	historiīs
accusative	historiam	historiās
ablative	historiā	historiīs
vocative	historia	historiae

Derived terms

• historialis
• historicus

Descendants

• Asturian: historia, hestoria
• Catalan: història
• Corsican: storia
• Dutch: historie
• English: history, storey, story
• French: histoire
• Friulian: istorie, storie
• Gallo: istoèrr
• Istriot: stuoria
• Italian: storia

• Norman: histouaithe
• Portuguese: história
• Romanian: istorie
• Romansch: istorgia
• Sicilian: storia
• Spanish: historia
• Swedish: historia
• Venetian: istoria, storia

References

• historia in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• historia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• HISTORIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• historia in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis
    
  • history (as a science): historia
    
  • Roman history (i.e. the exposition, representation of it by writers): historia Romana or rerum Romanarum historia
    
  • to write a history: historiam (-as) scribere
    
  • to study historical records, read history: evolvere historias, litterarum (veterum annalium) monumenta
    
  • history has handed down to us: historiae prodiderunt (without nobis)
    
  • mythology: fabulae, historia fabularis
    
  • historic truth: historiae, rerum fides
    
  • to give a veracious and historic account of a thing: narrare aliquid ad fidem historiae
    
  • an acknowledged historical fact: res historiae fide comprobata
    
  • to devote oneself to writing history: ad historiam (scribendam) se conferre or se applicare
    
  • a conscientious historian: homo in historia diligens
    
• historia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• historia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• historien

Noun

historia m, f

1. definite feminine singular of historie

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

historia f

1. definite singular of historie

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin historia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xʲis̪ˈt̪ɔrʲja]

• audio

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Noun

historia f

1. history
2. story

Declension

declension of historia

	singular	plural
nominative	historia	historie
genitive	historii	historii/historyj
dative	historii	historiom
accusative	historię	historie
instrumental	historią	historiami
locative	historii	historiach
vocative	historio	historie

External links

• historia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Noun

historia f (plural historias)

1. Obsolete spelling of história

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορία ‎(historía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈst̪oɾja/

Noun

historia f ‎(plural historias)

1. history
2. story
3. The letter H in the Spanish phonetic alphabet

Synonyms

• (story): cuento, relato, narración
• (history): historial

Derived terms

• historiador
• histórico

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Swahili

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin historia.

Noun

historia (n class, plural historia)

1. history (aggregate of past events)

Derived terms

• mwanahistoria

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

historia c

1. history

   Hon är professor i historia.‎

   She is a professor of history.

   Landet har en lång historia av blodiga krig.‎

   The country has a long history of bloody wars.

2. A story, plot (of a work of fiction)
3. A joke or anecdote
4. An event, incident or affair.

   Mitt äktenskap var en riktigt sorglig historia.‎

   My marriage was a really sorry affair.

Declension

Declension of historia 1

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	historia	historian
genitive	historias	historians

Inflection of historia
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	historia	historien	historier	historierna
Genitive	historias	historiens	historiers	historiernas

Inflection of historia
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	historia	historian	historier	historierna
Genitive	historias	historians	historiers	historiernas

Usage notes

Usually, the phrase rolig historia denotes a shorter joke with a funny (witty...) punchline, while historia by itself usually denotes a story (or an anecdote).

Related terms

Related terms

• historieberättare
• historielös
• historiker

• historisk
• religionshistoriker
• rolig historia

• rötmånadshistoria
• vetenskapshistoriker