chrononym

English

Etymology

A 1979: chrono- +‎ -onym.

Noun

chrononym (plural chrononyms)

1. (semiotics) A term for a specific period of time, such as "summer" or "week."
   • 1986, Cohen, Sande, Historical culture : on the recoding of an academic discipline‎^[1]:

     requires that the simple stative make use of the reader's implicit knowledge and sense of periodization, here the chrononym of "loss of status" because Nixon had to vacate the world's most desirable position of political power

   • 2012, Blatner, David, Spectrums : our mindboggling universe from infinitesimal to infinity‎^[2]:

     It’s important to remember that every chrononym (a word that refers to some particular time, such as “springtime” or “teatime”) is arbitrary; every calendar is based on cultural norms and sometimes curious assumptions.

Translations

term for a period of time

• Catalan: cronònim m
• French: chrononyme (fr) m
• Galician: cronónimo m
• Portuguese: cronónimo (pt) m (Portugal), cronônimo (pt) m (Brazil)