The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχρονικός“of or concerning time”
- Latin · derived fromchronica
- Old French · derived fromcronike
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromcronicle
- Middle English · inherited fromcronicle
- English todaychronicle
From Middle English cronicle, cronycle, from Anglo-Norman cronicle, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronica, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of or concerning time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchcronike all →
chronic
Ancient Greekχρονικός all →
chronic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.