estoire

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin historia.

Alternative forms

Noun

estoire oblique singular, f (oblique plural estoires, nominative singular estoire, nominative plural estoires)

  1. history
    • c. 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:
      La senestre, selonc l'estoire,
      senefie la vainne gloire
      qui vint de fause ypocrisie.
      Et la destre, que senefie ?
      Charité, qui de sa bone oevre
      pas ne se vante, ençois la coevre[.]
      The left, according to history
      Represents vainglory
      Which comes from false hypocrisy
      And the right, what does that represent?
      Charity, which does not
      boast about its good work
  2. story; tale
Descendants
  • Anglo-Norman: estorie (see there for further descendants)
  • French: histoire, hîtoire (obsolete)
  • Gallo: istoèrr
  • Norman: histouaire, histouaithe (Jersey), histouère (continental), istwer (Sark), histouère, istwer
  • → Middle English: historie (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek στόλιον (stólion),[1] diminutive of στολή (stolḗ, “equipment”).

Noun

estoire ?

  1. alternative form of estoile (“war provision”)

References

  1. ^ Euren, S. F. (1896) chapter 2, in Étude sur l'r français‎[1], Upsala: Imprimerie Almquist & Wiksell, page 22

Portuguese

Verb

estoire

  1. inflection of estoirar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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