historique

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin historicus (historical).

Pronunciation

  • (mute h) IPA(key): /is.tɔ.ʁik/
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Adjective

historique (plural historiques)

  1. (relational) historical (pertaining to history)
    linguistique historiquehistorical linguistics
  2. historic (important or likely to be important to history and historians)
    Synonym: à marquer d'une pierre blanche
    un moment historique(please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

Noun

historique m (plural historiques)

  1. (computing) history
  2. chronological narration of past events, history

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