histoire

From Middle French histoire, from Old French istorie (ca. 1100), borrowed from Latin historia, itself from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía).

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /is.twaʁ/

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• Rhymes: -aʁ

histoire f (plural histoires)

1. story
2. history
3. (informal) lie, fantasy, invention
4. misadventure

• historien
• historique

• Haitian Creole: istwa

• “histoire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

histoire

1. Alternative form of historie