narrative

What it means

1. Telling a story.
2. Overly talkative; garrulous.

   But wise through time, and narrative with age.

   1715–1720, Homer, “(please specify the book of the Iliad or chapter quoted from)”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC

3. Of or relating to narration.

   the narrative thrust of a film

   1 more example

   There is a deep divide in our species. On one side, the narrators: those who are indeed intensely narrative, self-storying, Homeric, in their sense of life and self, whether they look to the past or the future.

   2004 January 10, Galen Strawson, “Review: Making Stories by Jerome Bruner”, in The Guardian

In a sentence

But wise through time, and narrative with age.

1715–1720, Homer, “(please specify the book of the Iliad or chapter quoted from)”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC

Where it comes from

1. Latinnarrātīvus
2. Middle Frenchnarratif
3. Middle Scotsnarrative
4. Englishnarrative

Borrowed from Middle Scots narrative, nerrative, from Middle French narratif, from Latin narrātīvus, from narrō (“to narrate”). By surface analysis, Latin narr- + -ate + -ive.