denotation.
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: a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events
: events of the past
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etymology.
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14c. English; “relation of incidents” (true or false)
Old French, estoire; “story; chronicle, history”
(12c., Modern French histoire)
Latin, historia; “account, story”
Ancient Greek, ἱστορία; “narration of what is learned”
ἱστορέω (historéō); to inquire”
ῐ̓́στωρ (hístōr); “one who knows law and right, a wise man”
Proto-Hellenic, *wístōr
PIE *wéydtōr; “knower, wise person”
PIE root *weyd- “to see”

HISTORY / HISTORIA