historia

Asturian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin historia.

Noun

historia f (plural histories)

  1. history
  2. story

Basque

Etymology

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

Noun

historia

  1. history
  2. saga

Declension


Esperanto

Etymology

From historio + -a.

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • 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)

Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhistoriɑ/, [ˈhis̠t̪o̞riɑ]
  • 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

Compounds


Interlingua

Noun

historia (plural historias)

  1. history

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /isˈtɔ.rja/, [is̪ˈt̪ɔːr̺jä]
  • Rhymes: -ɔrja
  • Stress: història
  • Hyphenation: hi‧sto‧ria

Noun

historia f (plural historie)

  1. Obsolete 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.

Latin

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

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

Descendants

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

historia m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of historie

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

historia f

  1. definite singular of historie

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin historia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xʲiˈstɔrʲ.ja/
  • (file)

Noun

historia f

  1. history
  2. story

Declension

Further reading


Portuguese

Noun

historia f (plural historias)

  1. Obsolete spelling of história

Spanish

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

Further reading


Swahili

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin historia.

Noun

historia (n class, plural historia)

  1. history (aggregate of past events)

Derived terms


Swedish

Pronunciation

  • (file)

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.

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).

Declension

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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