estoire

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin historia.

Alternative forms

• historie

Noun

estoire oblique singular, f (oblique plural estoires, nominative singular estoire, nominative plural estoires)

1. history
   • c. 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:

     La senestre, selonc l'estoire,
     senefie la vainne gloire
     qui vint de fause ypocrisie.
     Et la destre, que senefie ?
     Charité, qui de sa bone oevre
     pas ne se vante, ençois la coevre[.]

     The left, according to history
     Represents vainglory
     Which comes from false hypocrisy
     And the right, what does that represent?
     Charity, which does not
     boast about its good work

2. story; tale

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: estorie (see there for further descendants)
• French: histoire, hîtoire (obsolete)
  • Haitian Creole: istwa
• Gallo: istoèrr
• Norman: histouaire, histouaithe (Jersey), histouère (continental Normandy), istwer (Sark), histouère, istwer
• → Middle English: historie (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek στόλιον (stólion), diminutive of στολή (stolḗ, “equipment”).

Noun

estoire ?

1. Alternative form of estoile (“war provision”)

Portuguese

Verb

estoire

1. inflection of estoirar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative