The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχρόνος“time”
- English todaycronjob
From cron + job. From cron, name of the system program that handles these tasks; from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekχρόνος all →
chronologycroncrontabchronoschronometerisochronouschronaxiechronemechrono-chronoclasmchronogramchronomentrophobiachronometricchronometricschronometrychronophobiachronosome-chronouscrono-parachronic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.