The word “idiot” comes from the Greek noun ἰδιώτης idiōtēs ‘a private person, individual’, ‘a private citizen‘ (as opposed to an official), ‘a common man’, ‘a…
The word history comes from the Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía), meaning ‘inquiry’, ‘knowledge from inquiry’, or ‘judge’. It was in that sense that Aristotle used the word…