ἱστορία
See also: ιστορία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ῐ̔στορῐ́η (historíē) — Ionic
Etymology
From ῐ̔στορέω (historéō, “to inquire”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “one who knows, wise one”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /his.to.rí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)is.toˈri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /is.toˈri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /is.toˈri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /is.toˈri.a/
Noun
ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ • (historíā) f (genitive ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- inquiry, examination, systematic observation, science
- body of knowledge obtained by systematic inquiry
- written account of such inquiries, narrative, history
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ hē historíā |
τὼ ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ tṑ historíā |
αἱ ῐ̔στορῐ́αι hai historíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱς tês historíās |
τοῖν ῐ̔στορῐ́αιν toîn historíain |
τῶν ῐ̔στορῐῶν tôn historiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾳ têi historíāi |
τοῖν ῐ̔στορῐ́αιν toîn historíain |
ταῖς ῐ̔στορῐ́αις taîs historíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱν tḕn historíān |
τὼ ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ tṑ historíā |
τᾱ̀ς ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱς tā̀s historíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ historíā |
ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ historíā |
ῐ̔στορῐ́αι historíai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- (adj.): ἱστορικός (historikós)
Descendants
- Borrowings
- → Arabic: أُسْطُورَة (ʔusṭūra) (phono-semantic matching)
- → Belarusian: гісто́рыя (históryja)
- → Bulgarian: исто́рия (istórija)
- → Chuvash: истори (istori)
- → Gagauz: istoriya
- → Georgian: ისტორია (isṭoria)
- → Hebrew: היסטוריה (história)
- → Latin: historia (see there for further descendants)
- → Macedonian: исто́рија (istórija)
- → Ossetian: истори (istori)
- → Russian: исто́рия (istórija)
- → Carpathian Rusyn: істо́рія (istórija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: hìstōrija
- → Ukrainian: істо́рія (istórija)
- → Yakut: история (istoriya)
References
- “ἱστορία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἱστορία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἱστορία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
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