"historical, historic" in seven languages
Meaninghistorical, historic
Spanish
histórico
/isˈtoɾiko/
learned
French
historique
/istɔʁik/
learned
Italian
storico
/ˈstɔriko/
learned
Italian drops the initial i, as in storia.
Portuguese
histórico
/isˈtɔɾiku/
learned
Romanian
istoric
/isˈtorik/
learned
Catalan
històric
/isˈtɔɾik/
learned
English
historical
/hɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/
from Latin/French · Latin HISTORICUS (+ -al)
English → Italianhistorical, historicstoricoCognateSame 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
One word covers both English 'historical' (about the past) and 'historic' (momentous): una decisión histórica, un roman historique.
English relatives: history, story, historian
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In a sentence
- esEstoy leyendo una novela histórica.
- frJe lis un roman historique.
- itSto leggendo un romanzo storico.
- ptEstou lendo um romance histórico.
- roCitesc un roman istoric.
- caEstic llegint una novel·la històrica.
- enI'm reading a historical novel.
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