English
Etymology
From Gr. dia- through, along with + chronos time
Adjective
diachronic
#occuring or changing along with time
#* "...one salient value of archival magazine preservation is that individual issues register, however unintentionally, the small, incremental, diachronic movements within a culture." — Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2005
#:Diachronic linguistics is the study of language change; it is also called historical linguistics.
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