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"historic (important in history)" in seven languages

Meaninghistoric (important in history)

Spanish

histórico

/isˈtoɾiko/

learned

The h is silent, as always in Spanish.

French

historique

/istɔʁik/

learned

Italian

storico

/ˈstɔriko/

learned

Italian dropped the initial i- of HISTORIA: storia, storico.

Portuguese

histórico

/isˈtɔɾiku/

learned

Romanian

istoric

/isˈtorik/

learned

Catalan

històric

/isˈtɔɾik/

learned

English

historic

/hɪˈstɔɹɪk/

from Latin/French · Latin historicus

English splits historic 'momentous' from historical 'about the past'; the sisters use one adjective for both.

English → Italianhistoric (important in history)storicoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

HISTORICUM‘of history (Greek historikós)’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Italian storia lost its first syllable, and so did English story, which is history worn down through Anglo-French.

English relatives: history, historian, story

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In a sentence

  • esFue un día histórico.
  • frC'était une journée historique.
  • itÈ stata una giornata storica.
  • ptFoi um dia histórico.
  • roA fost o zi istorică.
  • caVa ser un dia històric.
  • enIt was a historic day.

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