historia

Alternative forms

• hestoria
• historica

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin historia.

Noun

historia f (plural histories)

1. history
2. story

Etymology

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

Noun

historia

1. history
2. saga

Etymology

From historio +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

historia

1. history

Noun

historia (plural historias)

1. history

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
4. (Medieval Latin, England) storey

References

• 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, 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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Alternative forms

• historien

Noun

historia m, f

1. definite feminine singular of historie

Noun

historia f

1. definite singular of historie

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin historia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xʲiˈstɔrʲ.ja/

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Noun

historia f

1. history
2. story

Further reading

• historia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Noun

historia f (plural historias)

1. Obsolete spelling of história

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /isˈtoɾja/, [isˈt̪oɾja]

Noun

historia f (plural historias)

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

Further reading

• “historia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin historia.

Noun

historia (n class, plural historia)

1. history (aggregate of past events)

Pronunciation

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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.