chronicle

See also Chronicles

English

Etymology

Latin chronica, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (chronikos, “of or concerning time”), from χρόνος (chronos, “time”)

Noun

chronicle (plural chronicles)

1. A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.

Synonyms

• (account of events and when they happened): annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version

Translations

a written account

• Bulgarian: летопис (bg) (letopis) m, хроника (bg) (chronika) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 編年史 (cmn), 编年史 (cmn) (biānniánshǐ), 記事 (cmn), 记事 (cmn) (jìshì)

• Czech: kronika (cs) f
• Dutch: kroniek (nl) f
• Finnish: aikakirja (fi), kronikka (fi)
• French: chronique (fr) f
• Georgian: მატიანე (ka) (matiane)
• German: Chronik (de) f
• Italian: cronaca (it) f
• Japanese: 記録 (ja) (きろく, kiroku)

• Jèrriais: chronique f
• Khmer: កាលប្បវត្ដិ (km) (kaalobbɑvoat)
• Latin: chronica (la) f, annales (la), annales (la) m pl
• Malay: babad (ms), riwayat (ms)
• Portuguese: crónica (pt) f, crônica (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: cronică (ro) f
• Russian: летопись (ru) (létopis') f, хроника (ru) (xrónika) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: летопис (sh) m, кроника (sh) f

  Roman: letopis (sh) m, kronika (sh) f

• Spanish: crónica (es) f
• Swedish: krönika (sv) c

Verb

chronicle (third-person singular simple present chronicles, present participle chronicling, simple past and past participle chronicled)

1. To record in or as in a chronicle.

Synonyms

• (record in a chronicle): record