Albanian

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historia

  1. definite nominative singular of histori

Asturian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin historia.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /isˈtoɾja/, [is̪ˈt̪o.ɾja]
  • Rhymes: -orja
  • Hyphenation: his‧to‧ria

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historia f (plural histories)

  1. history
  2. story
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Basque

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /his̺toɾia/ [his̺.t̪o.ɾi.a]
  • IPA(key): (Southern) /is̺toɾia/ [is̺.t̪o.ɾi.a]
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  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: his‧to‧ri‧a

Noun

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historia inan

  1. history
    Synonym: kondaira
  2. saga

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Catalan

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Verb

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historia

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

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From historio +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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

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

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

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhistoriɑ/, [ˈhis̠to̞ˌriɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -iɑ
  • Hyphenation(key): his‧to‧ria

Noun

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historia

  1. history
    tehdä historiaato make history

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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
historiain rare
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
abessive historiatta historioitta
instructive historioin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of historia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative historiani historiani
accusative nom. historiani historiani
gen. historiani
genitive historiani historioideni
historioitteni
historiaini rare
partitive historiaani historioitani
inessive historiassani historioissani
elative historiastani historioistani
illative historiaani historioihini
adessive historiallani historioillani
ablative historialtani historioiltani
allative historialleni historioilleni
essive historianani historioinani
translative historiakseni historioikseni
abessive historiattani historioittani
instructive
comitative historioineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative historiasi historiasi
accusative nom. historiasi historiasi
gen. historiasi
genitive historiasi historioidesi
historioittesi
historiaisi rare
partitive historiaasi historioitasi
inessive historiassasi historioissasi
elative historiastasi historioistasi
illative historiaasi historioihisi
adessive historiallasi historioillasi
ablative historialtasi historioiltasi
allative historiallesi historioillesi
essive historianasi historioinasi
translative historiaksesi historioiksesi
abessive historiattasi historioittasi
instructive
comitative historioinesi

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Galician

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Etymology

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

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  • IPA(key): /isˈtɔɾja/ [is̺ˈt̪ɔ.ɾjɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ɔɾja
  • Hyphenation: his‧to‧ria

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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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Interlingua

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historia (plural historias)

  1. history

Italian

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Etymology

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

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

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historia f (plural historie)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of storia

Latin

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Etymology

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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).

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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 historiaa clerestory

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative historia historiae
genitive historiae historiārum
dative historiae historiīs
accusative historiam historiās
ablative historiā historiīs
vocative historia historiae

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  • 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[3], 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

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historia m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of historie

Norwegian Nynorsk

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historia f

  1. definite singular of historie

Polish

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Inherited from Old Polish historyja.

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  • IPA(key): /xisˈtɔ.rja/
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  • Audio 2:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔrja
  • Syllabification: his‧to‧ria

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historia f (diminutive historyjka, related adjective historyczny, abbreviation hist.)

  1. (uncountable) history (aggregate of past events)
    Synonym: dzieje
  2. (uncountable) history (branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events)
  3. (uncountable) history (branch of studies at university studying the past)
  4. (countable) history (administrative department at a university teaching university)
  5. (uncountable) history (subject in school)
  6. (countable) history (lesson teaching history at school)
  7. (countable) story (account of real or fictional events)
    Synonym: opowieść
  8. (countable) history; story (extraordinary, exciting event)
  9. (countable, computing) history (record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser)
  10. (Middle Polish) historical painting or sculpture (artistic work containing content about history)

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), historia is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 36 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 29 times in essays, 18 times in fiction, and 20 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 119 times, making it the 350th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “historia”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 144

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Portuguese

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historia f (plural historias)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of história.

Spanish

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Etymology 1

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

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historia f (plural historias)

  1. history (the aggregate of past events)
    pasar a la historiato go down in history
  2. history (the branch of knowledge that studies the past)
    el departamento de historiathe 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)
    Synonyms: cuento, narración, relato
    contar una historiato tell a story
  6. the letter H in the Spanish spelling alphabet
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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historia

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

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Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía). Doublet of tori.

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historia

  1. (literary) history

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historia

  1. (literary) historic

Swahili

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Ultimately from Latin historia.

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historia class IX (plural historia class X)

  1. history (aggregate of past events)

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Swedish

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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.

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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).

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Declension of historia 1
nominative genitive
singular indefinite historia historias
definite historien historiens
plural indefinite
definite

("Historien" is also common for the definite for definitions 2-4. "Historian" does not appear in SAOL.)

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Done 1
News 1
orte 1
punk 1
see 6
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