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historiolae

historiolae is the plural of historiola.

Meaning of historiola

Noun

historiola (plural historiolas or historiolae)

  1. (literary) A spell which invokes a mythical narrative, asking for the events it describes or similar ones to be enacted (as found in some Greek, Egyptian and other inscriptions).
    • [A] Mandaic specimen from Kutha (BM 91715) which contains two independent incantations separated by a line: a historiola relating the expulsion of a particular lilith and the report of a dream purportedly dreamt by the client[.]2004, The Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, volume 29, page 31

Questions about historiolae

What is historiolae the plural of?
Historiolae is the plural of historiola.

Words near historiolae in the dictionary

  1. historiographically
  2. historiographies
  3. historiographs
  4. historiography
  5. historiola
  6. historiolae
  7. historiolas
  8. historiological
  9. historiologies
  10. historiology
  11. historiometric

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Adapted from Wiktionary: historiolae (page history and authors); historiola (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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