historia

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See also: história, historiá, historía, and història

Asturian[edit]

Asturian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin historia.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /isˈtoɾja/, [is̪ˈt̪o.ɾja]

Noun[edit]

historia f (plural histories)

  1. history
  2. story

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Basque[edit]

Basque Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

historia inan

  1. history
  2. saga

Declension[edit]

Declension of historia (inanimate, ending in -a)
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 — —
prolative historiatzat — —

Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From historio +‎ -a.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [histoˈria]
  • Audio:
    (file)
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: his‧to‧ri‧a

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]

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈhistoriɑ/, [ˈhis̠t̪o̞ˌriɑ]
  • Rhymes: -iɑ
  • Syllabification(key): 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
Possessive forms of historia (type kulkija)
possessor singular plural
1st person historiani historiamme
2nd person historiasi historianne
3rd person historiansa

Derived terms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese estoria (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

historia f (plural historias)

  1. history (the aggregate of past events)
  2. history (the branch of knowledge that studies the past)
  3. history (a set of events involving an entity)
  4. history (a record or narrative description of past events)
  5. story (a sequence of real or fictional events)
    Synonym: conto
  6. gossip (idle talk)
    Synonyms: conto, leria

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References[edit]

  • “estoria” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “storia” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “historia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “historia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “historia” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Further reading[edit]

Interlingua[edit]

Noun[edit]

historia (plural historias)

  1. history

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía, “learning through research”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /iˈstɔ.rja/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrja
  • Hyphenation: hi‧stò‧ria

Noun[edit]

historia f (plural historie)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of storia
    • 1854, Frederick William Fairholt, The Two Gentelemen Of Verona., page 201:
      Il povero giovane Nerino non sapendo che Genobbia fusse moglie Raimondo, cominciò raccontargli l'historia riservando però il nome.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

Latin[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

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. a history
  2. an account
  3. a story
  4. (Medieval Latin, England) a narrative illustration, frieze or inscription (esp. on a wall)
    1. upper level, storey (esp. of a church, where a frieze would often appear); (later) a window level
      clāra historia ― a clerestory

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

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]

Descendants of historia in other languages

References[edit]

Further reading[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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • historia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], 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[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

historia m or 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): /xisˈtɔ.rja/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔrja
  • Syllabification: his‧to‧ria

Noun[edit]

historia f (diminutive historyjka)

  1. history
    Synonym: dzieje
  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

Derived terms[edit]

adjective
adverb
nouns

Further reading[edit]

  • historia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • historia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

Noun[edit]

historia f (plural historias)

  1. Obsolete spelling of história

Spanish[edit]

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia es

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /isˈtoɾja/ [isˈt̪o.ɾja]
  • Audio (Colombia)(file)
  • Rhymes: -oɾja
  • Hyphenation: his‧to‧ria

Noun[edit]

historia f (plural historias)

  1. history (the aggregate of past events)
    pasar a la historia ― to go down in history
  2. history (the branch of knowledge that studies the past)
    el departamento de historia ― the History department
  3. history (a set of events involving an entity)
    Synonym: historial
  4. history (a record or narrative description of past events)
  5. story (a sequence of real or fictional events)
    contar una historia ― to tell a story
    Synonyms: cuento, narración, relato
  6. the letter H in the Spanish spelling alphabet

Hyponyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

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Verb[edit]

historia

  1. inflection of historiar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading[edit]

Swahili[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Latin historia.

Pronunciation[edit]

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 1
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

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Further reading[edit]

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