Etymograph

English

narrative

Narrative is borrowed from Middle Scots narrative, from Middle French narratif, from Latin narrātīvus, from narrō ‘to narrate’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnarrō‘to narrate’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEnarrātīvus
  3. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600narratif
  4. Middle Scotsmodernnarrative
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1715–1720same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnarrō‘to narrate’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEnarrātīvus
  3. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600narratif
  4. Middle Scotsmodernnarrative
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1715–1720same form

Earliest quotation: 1715–1720, Homer, (please specify the book of the Iliad or chapter quoted from: “But wise through time, and narrative with age.”

Equivalent to narrāre + -ate + -ive

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- ‘to know’

can, know, could, note, normal, notice, recognize, ignore, glory, recognition, con, noble, ken, keen, notion, norm, ignorant, notorious, diagnostic, cognitive, nobility, cunning, prognosis, quaint, gnome, cognition, notoriety, notation, incognito, notary, canny, connoisseur, agnostic, uncouth, kith, gnosis, canna, recognizance, cognizance, annotate, 91 more

Today it means

adj Telling a story.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin narrō / narrative

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