Write an essay on Dictionary of History in 80 to 100 words.
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The word history comes ultimately from Ancient Greek historia meaning "inquiry", "knowledge from inquiry", or "judge".The Greek word was borrowed into Classical Latin as historia, meaning investigation, inquiry, research, account, description, written account of past events, writing of history, historical narrative, recorded knowledge of past events, story, narrative". Meanwhile, as Latin became Old French historia developed into forms such as istorie, estoire, and historie, with new developments in the meaning account of the events of a person's life,chronicle, account of events as relevant to a group of people or people in general dramatic or pictorial representation of historical events body of knowledge relative to human evolution, science narrative of real or imaginary events, story.It was from Anglo-Norman that history was borrowed into Middle English, and this time the loan stuck. It appears in the thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse, but seems to have become a common word in the late fourteenth century, with an early attestation appearing in John Gower's Confessio Amantis of the 1390s "I finde in a book compiled | To this matiere an old histoire, | The which comth nou to mi memoire". In Middle English, the meaning of history was "story" in general. The restriction to the meaning "the branch of knowledge that deals with past events; the formal record or study of past events, esp. human affairs" arose in the mid-fifteenth century.With the Renaissance, older senses of the word were revived, and it was in the Greek sense that Francis Bacon used the term in the late sixteenth century, when he wrote about "Natural History". For him, historia was "the knowledge of objects determined by space and time", that sort of knowledge provided by memory.In an expression of the linguistic synthetic vs. analytic/isolating dichotomy, English like Chinese now designates separate words for human history and storytelling in general. In modern German, French, and most Germanic and Romance languages, which are solidly synthetic and highly inflected, the same word is still used to mean both "history" and "story".
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Dictionary of History is a type of dictionary that not only contains the present-day meaning of a word but as well as the word's historical development over time. The dictionary of history is essential since it includes information that explains the development of language vocabulary; thus, it's suitable for those interested in understanding how a word's developed over time. The dictionary also contains in-depth information about world political movements and religious organizations and maps that provide entries of essential events.