chronological

English

Etymology

From chrono- +‎ -logical or chronology +‎ -ical.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Audio (UK) (file)
Hyphenation: chro‧no‧log‧i‧cal

Adjective

chronological (comparative more chronological, superlative most chronological)

Relating to time, or units of time.
He is 67 in chronological age, but has the mind and body of someone 55.
In order of time from the earliest to the latest.
The live report lists all the events in chronological order.
- 8 November 2014, Kirsty Gunn, “A Book of Death and Fish by Ian Stephen – review”, in The Guardian‎:
  A Book of Death and Fish is about one Peter MacAulay, an unremarkable individual who has the sea and its promises always with him, experiencing the usual strains of growing up and growing old – the death of a friend, his parents, marriage and children – all set out in chronological order and divided into two books, Migration and Turbulence.

Related terms

chronological age
chronologically
chronological order
chronology
chronicle, which see for more
chronograph

Translations

in order of time from the earliest to the latest

Arabic: مُرَتَّب زَمَنِيَّا‎ (murattab zamaniyyā)
Armenian: ժամանակագրական (hy) (žamanakagrakan)
Belarusian: храналагі́чны (xranalahíčny)
Bulgarian: хронологически (hronologičeski)
Catalan: cronològic
Chinese:
Mandarin: 按時間先後／按时间先后 (zh) (àn shíjiān xiānhòu)
Czech: chronologický
Danish: kronologisk
Dutch: chronologisch (nl)
Esperanto: kronologia, tempa
Estonian: kronoloogiline
Finnish: kronologinen (fi)
French: chronologique (fr)
Galician: cronolóxico
Georgian: ქრონოლოგიური (kronologiuri)
German: chronologisch (de), zeitlich (de)
Greek: χρονολογικός (el) (chronologikós)
Hebrew: כּרוֹנוֹלוֹגִי‎ (he)
Hungarian: időrendi (hu), kronológiai, kronologikus
Indonesian: kronologis (id)
Irish: cróineolaíoch
Italian: cronologico (it)
Japanese: 経時的 (けいじてき, keijiteki)
Kazakh: хронологиялық (xronologiälyq)
Korean: 연대기의 (yeondaegiui)
Latvian: hronoloģisks
Lithuanian: chronologinis, chronologiškas
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kronologisk
Nynorsk: kronologisk
Persian: زمانی‎ (fa) (zamâni)
Polish: chronologiczny (pl)
Portuguese: cronológico (pt)
Romanian: cronologic (ro) m
Russian: хронологический (ru) (xronologičeskij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хронолошки (Bosnia, Serbia), кронолошки (Croatia)
Roman: hronološki (Bosnia, Serbia), kronološki (sh) (Croatia)
Slovak: chronologický
Slovene: kronološki
Spanish: cronológico (es)
Swedish: kronologisk (sv)
Turkish: kronolojik (tr)
Ukrainian: хронологічний (xronolohičnyj)

References

Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “chronological”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.