historia

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See also: história, historiá, historía, and història

Asturian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin historia.

Noun[edit]

historia f (plural histories)

  1. history
  2. story

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Basque[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

historia

  1. history
  2. saga

Declension[edit]

historia
(inanimate noun) declension
indefinite singular plural
absolutive historia historia historiak
ergative historiak historiak historiek
dative historiari historiari historiei
genitive historiaren historiaren historien
comitative historiarekin historiarekin historiekin
causative historiarengatik historiarengatik historiengatik
benefactive historiarentzat historiarentzat historientzat
instrumental historiaz historiaz historiez
inessive historiatan historian historietan
locative historiatako historiako historietako
allative historiatara historiara historietara
terminative historiataraino historiaraino historietaraino
directive historiatarantz historiarantz historietarantz
destinative historiatarako historiarako historietarako
ablative historiatatik historiatik historietatik
partitive historiarik
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prolative historiatzat
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-

Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From historio +‎ -a.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /histoˈria/
  • Hyphenation: his‧to‧ri‧a
  • Rhymes: -ia

Adjective[edit]

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

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

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Finnish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈhistoriɑ/, [ˈçis̠t̪o̞riɑ̝]
  • Hyphenation: his‧to‧ri‧a

Noun[edit]

historia

  1. history

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Interlingua[edit]

Noun[edit]

historia (plural historias)

  1. history

Latin[edit]

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

Noun[edit]

historia f (genitive historiae); first declension

  1. history
  2. account
  3. story
  4. (Medieval Latin, England) storey

Inflection[edit]

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[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • historia in Charlton T. Lewis and 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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

historia m, f

  1. definite feminine singular of historie

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Noun[edit]

historia f

  1. definite singular of historie

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin historia.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /xʲiˈstɔrʲ.ja/
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Noun[edit]

historia f

  1. history
  2. story

Declension[edit]

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

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Portuguese[edit]

Noun[edit]

historia f (plural historias)

  1. Obsolete spelling of história

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /isˈtoɾja/, [isˈt̪oɾja]

Noun[edit]

historia f (plural historias)

  1. history
  2. story (a sequence of events)
  3. The letter H in the Spanish phonetic alphabet

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Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Swahili[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Latin historia.

Noun[edit]

historia (n class, plural historia)

  1. history (aggregate of past events)

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Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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.

Usage notes[edit]

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).

Declension[edit]

Declension of historia 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative historia historian — —
Genitive historias historians — —
Declension of historia 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative historia historien historier historierna
Genitive historias historiens historiers historiernas
Declension of historia 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative historia historian historier historierna
Genitive historias historians historiers historiernas

Related terms[edit]

Terms related to historia
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