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Root of the Week: CHRON (Thursday)

  • Charlotte O'Connell
  • Jan 30
  • 1 min read

THURSDAY Diachronic, Synchronic (adjective)

The prefix “syn” means “with” or at the same time” and “dia” means “throughout,” or over time. Diachronic and synchronic are perspectives that can be taken when regarding a phenomenon. People who study languages, for example, use both a diachronic approach, studying how a language evolves over time, and a synchronic approach, taking, in effect, a snapshot of a language system as it exists at one point in time.

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