Narration of an event, usually personal, first-person, often as entertainment for the funny thing from the history, or demonstration purposes. French anecdote, which takes it from high latin anecdote from the Greek 945; 957; 949; 954; 948; 959; 964; 945; (unpublished anekdota) formed by 945; 957; _ (an_ without) and 949; 954; 948; 959; 964; 959; 962; (ekdotos "published").