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History

The study of past events.

The Greek roots

ἱστορία
historía
inquiry, knowledge from investigation

Literally: learning by inquiry

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.

Built on the same root

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