English
narration
Narration comes from Latin narrātiō ‘narration, narrative, story’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *gnārāō ‘to make known, tell’.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gnārāō‘to make known, tell’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnārrō‘narrate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEnarrātiō‘narration, narrative, story’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400narracion
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600narration
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gnārāō‘to make known, tell’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnārrō‘narrate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEnarrātiō‘narration, narrative, story’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400narracion
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600narration
- Englishtodaysame form
Equivalent to narrāre + -ate + -ion
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- ‘to know’
can, know, could, note, normal, notice, recognize, ignore, glory, noble, ken, keen, recognition, con, cognitive, norm, ignorant, diagnostic, notorious, notion, nobility, cunning, prognosis, quaint, gnome, notoriety, incognito, notary, canny, cognition, agnostic, notation, connoisseur, uncouth, kith, gnosis, canna, recognizance, cognizance, annotate, 91 more
Today it means
noun The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *gnārāō / narration