diachronic
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Greek dia- through, along with + chronos time
[edit] Adjective
diachronic (not comparable)
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Superlative |
- 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.
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[edit] Translations
- Czech: diachronní cs(cs)