The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχρόνος“time”
- English todaycrontab
Shortening of cron table, where cron is the name of the system program that handles these tasks, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekχρόνος all →
chronologycronchronoschronometerisochronouscronjobchronaxiechronemechrono-chronoclasmchronogramchronomentrophobiachronometricchronometricschronometrychronophobiachronosome-chronouscrono-parachronic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.