“historia”, inKielitoimiston 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–, retrieved2 July 2023
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “storia”, inCorpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
Borrowed fromAncient Greekἱστορία(historía,“learning through research, narration of what is learned”), fromἱστορέω(historéō,“to learn through research, to inquire”), fromἵστωρ(hístōr,“the one who knows, the expert, the judge”).
“historia”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"historia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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 orhistoriarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis
history (as a science):historia
Roman history (i.e. the exposition, representation of it by writers):historia Romana orrerum 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 (withoutnobis)
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 orse applicare
a conscientious historian:homo in historia diligens
“historia”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
historia inRamminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)),Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
According toSłownik 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]
^Ida Kurcz (1990), “historia”, inSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page144
“HISTORIA”, inElektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century],12.03.2020
Usually, the phraserolig historia denotes a shorter joke with a funny (witty...) punchline, whilehistoria by itself usually denotes a story (or an anecdote).
