Etymology

story

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Today it means: An account of real or fictional events. Full definition →

Middle English storie ← Old French estorie ← Latin historia
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story · noun, verb1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*wéydtōr
  3. Proto-Hellenic*wístōr
  4. Ancient Greekῐ̔́στωρ (hĭ́stōr)
  5. Ancient Greekῐ̔στορέω (hĭstoréō)
  6. Ancient Greekῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ (hĭstorĭ́ā)
  7. Latinhistoria
  8. Old Frenchestoire
  9. Old Frenchestorie
  10. Middle Englishstorie
  11. English todaystory

From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis, from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ (hĭstorĭ́ā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.

story · interjection2

Alternative form of what's the story (“how are you?”)

Words from the same roots

Latinhistoria all →

historyhistorian

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.