原帖由 罗勒 于 2013-5-10 08:56 发表 history和story是不是源自同一个词
網上說,history 詞源如下:
late 14c., "relation of incidents" (true or
false), from Old French estoire, estorie "chronicle,
history, story" (12c., Modern French histoire), from Latin historia"narrative of past events,
account, tale, story," from Greek historia "a
learning or knowing by inquiry; an account of one's inquiries, history, record,
narrative," from historein "inquire,"
from histor "wise man,
judge," from PIE *wid-tor-,
from root *weid- "to know," literally "to see"
(see vision).
Related to Greek idein "to
see," and to eidenai "to
know." In Middle English, not differentiated from story;
sense of "record of past events" probably first attested late 15c. As
a branch of knowledge, from 1842. Sense of "systematic account (without
reference to time) of a set of natural phenomena" (1560s) is now obsolete
except in natural history.
One difference between history and imaginative literature
... is that history neither anticipates nor satisfies our curiosity, whereas
literature does. [Guy Davenport, "Wheel Ruts," 1996]
大概來說,history來自拉丁文historia,希臘文historia和histor,跟葡萄牙文應該是同源。中古英語中history和story也是不分的。
對現代女權主義來說,history是個極端政治不正確的詞:)
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