historia

• IPA^(key): /histoˈɾia/
• Rhymes: -ia

historia

1. definite nominative singular of histori

• hestoria, historica

Borrowed from Latin historia.

• IPA^(key): /isˈtoɾja/ [is̪ˈt̪o.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -oɾja
• Syllabification: his‧to‧ria

historia f (plural histories)

1. history
2. story

• históricu

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

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /his̺toɾia/ [his̺.t̪o.ɾi.a]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /is̺toɾia/ [is̺.t̪o.ɾi.a]

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• Rhymes: -ia, -a
• Hyphenation: his‧to‧ri‧a

historia inan

1. history

   Synonym: kondaira

2. saga

historia

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

From historio +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /histoˈria/

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: his‧to‧ri‧a

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

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

From Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía).

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

historia

1. history

   tehdä historiaa ― to make history

• “historia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

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

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

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “estoria”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “storia”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “historia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “historia”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “historia”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “historia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

historia (plural historias)

1. history

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

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

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.

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• istoria, storia (Late Latin)
• hystoria (Medieval and New Latin)

Borrowed 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”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɪsˈtɔ.ri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [isˈt̪ɔː.ri.a]

historia f (genitive historiae); first declension

1. a history
   • 1719, Johann Jakob Brucker, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam Doctrinae Logicae de Ideis

     An Essay Introducing the History of the Logical Doctrine of Ideas

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

First-declension noun.

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “historia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

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

• historien

historia m or f

1. definite feminine singular of historie

historia f

1. definite singular of historie

• historyja, istoryja (Middle Polish)
• historya (pre-reform orthography (1816))
• historja (pre-reform orthography (1936))
• kfisteryja (Podegrodzie)

Inherited from Old Polish historyja.

• IPA^(key): /xisˈtɔ.rja/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrja
• Syllabification: his‧to‧ria

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)

• → Kashubian: historiô

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]

• historia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• historia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “historyja, istoryja”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “HISTORIA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 12.03.2020
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “historya”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “historja”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “historja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 48

historia f (plural historias)

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

• IPA^(key): /isˈtoɾja/ [isˈt̪o.ɾja]

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• Rhymes: -oɾja
• Syllabification: his‧to‧ria

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

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)

   Synonyms: cuento, narración, relato

   contar una historia ― to tell a story

6. the letter H in the Spanish spelling alphabet

historia

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

• “historia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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

historia

1. (literary) history

historia

1. (literary) historic

Ultimately from Latin historia.

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historia class IX (plural historia class X)

1. history (aggregate of past events)

• mwanahistoria

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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.

5. (colloquial) A thing, object

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).

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

• historia in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• historia in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• historia in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH