Everyday LifeGreek → English
History
The study of past events.
The Greek roots
ἱστορία
historía
inquiry, knowledge from investigation
Literally: “learning by inquiry”
Follow a root:ἱστορία2 words
The story of the word
Herodotus called his account a historía, an 'inquiry'. The very word 'story' is its worn-down twin.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
The city's history stretched back three thousand years.