Etymology

unhistoric

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Today it means: Not historic or historical. Full definition →

English historic ← Latin historicus ← Ancient Greek ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ (hĭstorĭ́ā)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*wéydtōr
  10. Proto-Hellenic*wístōr
  11. Ancient Greekῐ̔́στωρ (hĭ́stōr)
  12. Ancient Greekῐ̔στορέω (hĭstoréō)
  13. Ancient Greekῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ (hĭstorĭ́ā)
  14. Latinhistoria
  15. Latinhistoricus
  16. Englishhistoric
  17. English todayunhistoric

From un- + historic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.