diachronic

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Adjective 1.2.1 Antonyms 1.2.2 Translations

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Greek dia- through, along with + chronos time

[edit] Adjective

diachronic (not comparable)

1. occurring or changing along with time
   • "...one salient value of archival magazine preservation is that individual issues register, however unintentionally, the small, incremental, diachronic movements within a culture." — Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2005

   Diachronic linguistics is the study of language change; it is also called historical linguistics.

[edit] Antonyms

• synchronic

[edit] Translations

• Czech: diachronní cs(cs)