chronicus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰro.ni.kus/, [ˈkʰrɔnɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.ni.kus/, [ˈkrɔːnikus]

Adjective

chronicus (feminine chronica, neuter chronicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to time.
2. (medicine) chronic

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	chronicus	chronica	chronicum		chronicī	chronicae	chronica
genitive	chronicī	chronicae	chronicī		chronicōrum	chronicārum	chronicōrum
dative	chronicō	chronicae	chronicō		chronicīs
accusative	chronicum	chronicam	chronicum		chronicōs	chronicās	chronica
ablative	chronicō	chronicā	chronicō		chronicīs
vocative	chronice	chronica	chronicum		chronicī	chronicae	chronica

Descendants

• Catalan: crònic
• → Dutch: chronisch
• → English: chronic
• French: chronique
• Galician: crónico
• → German: chronisch
• Italian: cronico
• Norman: chronique
• Portuguese: crônico, crónico (Portugal)
• Romanian: cronic
• Spanish: crónico

References

• “chronicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chronicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• chronicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.