chronology

English

Etymology

From chrono- (“relating to time”) +‎ -logy (“study of, account of”), after New Latin chronologia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/

Noun

chronology (countable and uncountable, plural chronologies)

1. (uncountable) the science of determining the order in which events occurred.
2. (countable) an arrangement of events into chronological order; called a timeline when involving graphical elements.

Coordinate terms

• horology

Derived terms

Terms derived from chronology

• astrochronology
• biochronology
• chronological
• chronologically
• chronologicity
• cosmochronology
• dendrochronology

• geochronology
• glottochronology
• gyrochronology
• magnetochronology
• mensiochronology
• nucleocosmochronology
• ptilochronology

• radiochronology
• sclerochronology
• skeletochronology
• synchronology
• tephrochronology
• thermochronology

Related terms

• chronicle
• chronograph

Translations

determining the order of events

• Arabic: تاريخ‏‎ (ar) m
• Catalan: cronologia (ca) f
• Esperanto: kronologio
• French: chronologie (fr) f
• Galician: cronoloxía f
• Greek: χρονολογία (el) f (chronología)
• Icelandic: tímatalsfræði f
• Italian: cronologia (it) f

• Khmer: កាលប្បវត្តិវិទ្យា (kaal ppa’ voat vityie)
• Malay: kronologi
• Portuguese: cronologia (pt) f
• Romanian: cronologie (ro) f
• Russian: хроноло́гия (ru) f (xronológija)
• Spanish: cronología (es) f
• Swedish: kronologi (sv) c

arrangement into chronological order

• Arabic: تأريخ‏‎ m
• Catalan: cronologia (ca) f
• French: chronologie (fr) f
• Galician: cronoloxía f
• German: Chronologie (de) f
• Greek: χρονολόγηση (el) f (chronológisi)
• Icelandic: tímatal n, tímasetning f

• Italian: cronologia (it) f
• Malay: kronologi
• Portuguese: cronologia (pt) f
• Russian: хроноло́гия (ru) f (xronológija)
• Spanish: cronología (es) f
• Swedish: kronologi (sv) c, kronologisk ordning (sv) c, tidsordning c
• Yiddish: כראָנאָלאָגיע‏‎ f (khronologye)

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Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Chronologie (de) f
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} chronologia
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} chronologija f

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} kronologi m
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} kronologija (sh) f