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30 lip 2024 · 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.
The word history comes from the Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía), meaning ‘inquiry’, ‘knowledge from inquiry’, or ‘judge’. It was in that sense that Aristotle used the word in his History of Animals.
early 15c., "of or pertaining to history, conveying information from the past," with -al (1) + Latin historicus "of history, historical," from Greek historikos "historical; of or for inquiry," from historia (see history).
23 cze 2017 · The Greek word historia originally meant inquiry, the act of seeking knowledge, as well as the knowledge that results from inquiry. And from there it’s a short jump to the accounts of events...
16 wrz 2014 · By exploring this Herodotus OpenLearn Collection, we can all join that grand tradition, and become research historians. Our word for ‘history’ comes from the Greek word historia (or historiê in some dialects), meaning ‘enquiry’, which Herodotus uses right at the beginning of his narrative.
27 wrz 2023 · The word “history” originates from the Ancient Greek word “historia,” which means “inquiry” or “knowledge acquired by investigation.” The term was first used by the Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th century BCE to refer to his investigations and writings about the past.
• Greek-English word-list containing about 1000 most common Greek words, so arranged as to be most easily learned and remembered, by Robert Baird (1893) • Greek and English Lexicon by James Donnegan (1840) • Vocabulaire classique: Ancient and Modern Greek-English-French vocabulary by topics, by G. Poppleton & G. Theocharopoulos (1834)
