# historia
## Albanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /histoˈɾia/
* Rhymes: -ia

### Noun

historia
* definite nominative singular of histori

## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* hestoria, historica

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin historia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /isˈtoɾja/ [is̪ˈt̪o.ɾja]
* Rhymes: -oɾja
* Syllabification: his‧to‧ria

### Noun

historia f (plural histories)
* history
* story

#### Related terms

* históricu

## Basque
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

historia inan
* history
    Synonym: kondaira
* saga

#### Declension
## Catalan
### Verb

historia
* inflection of historiar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From historio +‎ -a.

### Pronunciation

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

### Adjective

historia (accusative singular historian, plural historiaj, accusative plural historiajn)
* historical (relating to history)
* historic (of great importance)

#### Related terms

* historie
* historio

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhistoriɑ/, [ˈhis̠to̞ˌriɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -iɑ
* Hyphenation: his‧to‧ria

### Noun

historia
* history
    tehdä historiaa ― to make history

#### Declension

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
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
historiamme
historiamme
accusative
nom.
historiamme
historiamme
gen.
historiamme
genitive
historiamme
historioidemme historioittemme historiaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
historiaamme
historioitamme
inessive
historiassamme
historioissamme
elative
historiastamme
historioistamme
illative
historiaamme
historioihimme
adessive
historiallamme
historioillamme
ablative
historialtamme
historioiltamme
allative
historiallemme
historioillemme
essive
historianamme
historioinamme
translative
historiaksemme
historioiksemme
abessive
historiattamme
historioittamme
instructive
comitative
—historioinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
historianne
historianne
accusative
nom.
historianne
historianne
gen.
historianne
genitive
historianne
historioidenne historioittenne historiainne $^{rare}$
partitive
historiaanne
historioitanne
inessive
historiassanne
historioissanne
elative
historiastanne
historioistanne
illative
historiaanne
historioihinne
adessive
historiallanne
historioillanne
ablative
historialtanne
historioiltanne
allative
historiallenne
historioillenne
essive
historiananne
historioinanne
translative
historiaksenne
historioiksenne
abessive
historiattanne
historioittanne
instructive
comitative
—historioinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
historiansa
historiansa
accusative
nom.
historiansa
historiansa
gen.
historiansa
genitive
historiansa
historioidensa historioittensa historiainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
historiaansa
historioitaan historioitansa
inessive
historiassaan historiassansa
historioissaan historioissansa
elative
historiastaan historiastansa
historioistaan historioistansa
illative
historiaansa
historioihinsa
adessive
historiallaan historiallansa
historioillaan historioillansa
ablative
historialtaan historialtansa
historioiltaan historioiltansa
allative
historialleen historiallensa
historioilleen historioillensa
essive
historianaan historianansa
historioinaan historioinansa
translative
historiakseen historiaksensa
historioikseen historioiksensa
abessive
historiattaan historiattansa
historioittaan historioittansa
instructive
comitative
—historioineen historioinensa :

#### Derived terms

* hissa
* historiallinen
* historiaton
* historioida
* historioitsija
* aatehistoria
* alkuhistoria
* asutushistoria
* elämänhistoria
* esihistoria
* hallintohistoria
* henkilöhistoria
* historiakirja
* historiakäsitys
* historiamaalaus
* historianfilosofia
* historiankirja
* historiankirjoittaja
* historiankirjoitus
* historiankäsitys
* historianmukainen
* historianopettaja
* historiantakainen
* historiantunti
* historiantutkija
* historiantutkimus
* historianvastainen
* historiaseura
* historiateos
* historiatiede
* hoitohistoria
* järjestöhistoria
* kasvatushistoria
* kaupunkihistoria
* kehityshistoria
* kielihistoria
* kirjahistoria
* kirjallisuudenhistoria
* kirjallisuushistoria
* kirkkohistoria
* kulttuurihistoria
* kärsimyshistoria
* käsitehistoria
* luokkahistoria
* luonnonhistoria
* lähihistoria
* maailmanhistoria
* maakuntahistoria
* makrohistoria
* marginaalihistoria
* mediahistoria
* mentaalihistoria
* mentaliteettihistoria
* mikrohistoria
* muotohistoria
* musiikinhistoria
* naishistoria
* oikeushistoria
* olympiahistoria
* omistajahistoria
* omistushistoria
* oppihistoria
* paikallishistoria
* pitäjänhistoria
* psykohistoria
* pukuhistoria
* raamatunhistoria
* rakennushistoria
* sairaushistoria
* selaushistoria
* seurakuntahistoria
* sivuhistoria
* sosiaalihistoria
* sotahistoria
* sukuhistoria
* syntyhistoria
* taidehistoria
* taloushistoria
* tieteenhistoria
* tutkimushistoria
* työhistoria
* vaihtoehtohistoria
* vakuutushistoria
* varhaishistoria
* väestöhistoria
* äännehistoria

#### Related terms

* historiikki
* historiografia
* historisismi
* historismi

### Further reading

* “historia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /isˈtɔɾja/ [is̺ˈt̪ɔ.ɾjɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɔɾja
* Hyphenation: his‧to‧ria

### Noun

historia f (plural historias)
* history (the aggregate of past events)
* history (the branch of knowledge that studies the past)
* history (a set of events involving an entity)
* history (a record or narrative description of past events)
* story (a sequence of real or fictional events)
    Synonym: conto
* gossip (idle talk)
    Synonyms: conto, leria

#### Derived terms

* historiar

#### Related terms

* historial
* histórico

### References

* 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

### Further reading

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

## Interlingua
### Noun

historia (plural historias)
* history

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /iˈstɔ.rja/
* Rhymes: -ɔrja
* Hyphenation: hi‧stò‧ria

### Noun

historia f (plural historie)
* (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.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* istoria, storia (Late Latin)
* hystoria (Medieval and New 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 Latin) IPA: /hisˈto.ri.a/, [hɪs̠ˈt̪ɔriä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /isˈto.ri.a/, [isˈt̪ɔːriä]

### Noun

historia f (genitive historiae); first declension
* a history
** 1719, Johann Jakob Brucker, (Please provide the book title or journal name):Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam Doctrinae Logicae de IdeisAn Essay Introducing the History of the Logical Doctrine of Ideas
* an account
* a story
* (Medieval Latin, England) a narrative illustration, frieze or inscription (esp. on a wall)
** upper level, storey (esp. of a church, where a frieze would often appear); (later) a window level
    clāra historia ― a clerestory

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* historiālis
* historicus

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: histori
* → Aragonese: istoria
* → Asturian: historia, hestoria, historica
* → Basque: historia
* → Breton: istor
* → Catalan: història
* → Corsican: storia
* → Czech: historie
* → Danish: historie
* → Middle Dutch: historie
** Dutch: historie
*** → Indonesian: histori
* → English: storey
* → Finnish: historia
* → Old French: estoire, historie
** Anglo-Norman: estorie (see there for further descendants)
** French: histoire, hîtoire (obsolete)
*** Haitian Creole: istwa
** Gallo: istoèrr
** Norman: histouaire, histouaithe (Jersey), histouère (continental Normandy), istwer (Sark), histouère, istwer
** → Middle English: historie (see there for further descendants)
* → Friulian: istorie, storie
* → Galician: historia
* → German: Historie
* → Hungarian: história
* → Istriot: stuoria (perhaps via Italian)
* → Old Italian: istoria
** Italian: storia
* → Old Irish: stoir
** Middle Irish: stair
*** Irish: stair
* → Irish: stór
* → Ladino: istoria, estoria, estorya, historia, istoriya, istorya
* → Lithuanian: istorija
* → Mirandese: stória
* → Norwegian: historie
* → Occitan: istòria
* → Piedmontese: stòria
* Old Lombard: istoria
** Lombard: storia
* → Old Polish: historyja, istoryja (learned)
** Polish: historia, historyja, istoryja (Middle Polish), historya (pre-reform orthography (1816)), historja (pre-reform orthography (1936)), kfisteryja (Podegrodzie)
*** → Kashubian: historiô
** Silesian: historyjŏ
* → Portuguese: história
* → Old Prussian: istōrija
* → Romanian: istorie
* → Romansch: istorgia
* → Samogitian: istuorėjė
* → Sicilian: storia
** → Maltese: storja
* → Slovak: história
* → Spanish: historia
* → Sranan Tongo: historia (learned)
* → Swahili: historia
* → Swedish: historia
* → Venetan: istoria, storia
** → Cimbrian: stòrdja
* → Middle Welsh: ystyr
** Welsh: ystyr
* → Yiddish: היסטאָריע (historye)

### References

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

### Further reading

* “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, 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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* historien

### Noun

historia m or f
* definite feminine singular of historie

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

historia f
* definite singular of historie

## Polish
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish historyja.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xisˈtɔ.rja/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrja
* Syllabification: his‧to‧ria

### Noun

historia f (diminutive historyjka, related adjective historyczny, abbreviation hist.)
* (uncountable) history (aggregate of past events)
    Synonym: dzieje
* (uncountable) history (branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events)
* (uncountable) history (branch of studies at university studying the past)
* (countable) history (administrative department at a university teaching university)
* (uncountable) history (subject in school)
* (countable) history (lesson teaching history at school)
* (countable) story (account of real or fictional events)
    Synonym: opowieść
* (countable) history; story (extraordinary, exciting event)
* (countable, computing) history (record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser)
* (Middle Polish) historical painting or sculpture (artistic work containing content about history)

#### Derived terms

* historia naturalna
* historyczka
* historyk
* koło historii
* historia zatacza koło
* historia zatoczyła koło
* urzekła mnie twoja historia
* historia lubi się powtarzać
* przejść do historii pf, przechodzić do historii impf

#### Related terms

* ahistoryczny
* ahistorycznie
* historycznie
* ahistorycyzm
* ahistoryczność
* ahistoryzm
* historyczność

#### Descendants

* → Kashubian: historiô

### Trivia

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.

### References

* ↑ 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

### Further reading

* 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

## Portuguese
### Noun

historia f (plural historias)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of história.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /isˈtoɾja/ [isˈt̪o.ɾja]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾja
* Syllabification: his‧to‧ria

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

historia f (plural historias)
* history (the aggregate of past events)
    pasar a la historia ― to go down in history
* history (the branch of knowledge that studies the past)
    el departamento de historia ― the History department
* history (a set of events involving an entity)
    Synonym: historial
* history (a record or narrative description of past events)
* story (a sequence of real or fictional events)
    Synonyms: cuento, narración, relato
    contar una historia ― to tell a story
* the letter H in the Spanish spelling alphabet

##### Hyponyms

* historia clínica
* historia de fantasmas
* historia natural
* historia universal

##### Derived terms

* de historia
* hacer historia
* historiar
* intrahistoria

##### Related terms

* historial
* histórico

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

historia
* inflection of historiar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

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

### Noun

historia
* (literary) history

### Adjective

historia
* (literary) historic

## Swahili
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin historia.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

historia class IX (plural historia class X)
* history (aggregate of past events)

#### Derived terms

* mwanahistoria

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

historia c
* 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.
* A story, plot (of a work of fiction)
* A joke or anecdote
* 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

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

#### Related terms

* arkitekturhistoria
* bakgrundshistoria
* Bellmanshistoria
* detektivhistoria
* dräkthistoria
* efterkrigshistoria
* filmhistoria
* fruntimmershistoria
* förhistoria
* historieberättare
* historieförfalskning
* historielös
* historievetenskap
* historiker
* historisk
* idé- och lärdomshistoria
* idéhistoria
* idrottshistoria
* jakthistoria
* konsthistoria
* krigshistoria
* kriminalhistoria
* kulturhistoria
* kvinnohistoria
* kyrkohistoria
* kärlekshistoria
* levnadshistoria
* lidandeshistoria
* litteraturhistoria
* livshistoria
* ljudhistoria
* lokalhistoria
* lumparhistoria
* lärdomshistoria
* medeltidshistoria
* mentalitetshistoria
* militärhistoria
* missionshistoria
* musikhistoria
* naturalhistoria
* naturhistoria
* nutidshistoria
* passionshistoria
* personhistoria
* presshistoria
* religionshistoria
* rolig historia
* rättshistoria
* rötmånadshistoria
* rövarhistoria
* samhällshistoria
* samtidshistoria
* sjukdomshistoria
* sjöfartshistoria
* skandalhistoria
* skepparhistoria
* skräckhistoria
* skvallerhistoria
* skämthistoria
* släkthistoria
* snyfthistoria
* solskenshistoria
* spionhistoria
* språkhistoria
* spökhistoria
* stilhistoria
* svärmorshistoria
* teaterhistoria
* teknikhistoria
* tillkomsthistoria
* uppkomsthistoria
* urhistoria
* utvecklingshistoria
* vandringshistoria
* vetenskapshistoria
* världshistoria

### References

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