diachronic

(dī'ə-krŏn'ĭk)
adj.
Of or concerned with phenomena, such as linguistic features, as they change through time.

[From DIA- + Greek khronos, time.]

diachronically di'a·chron'i·cal·ly adv.

diachronic [dy‐ă‐kron‐ik], relating to historical change over a span of time. The revolution in linguistics begun by Ferdinand de Saussure in the Cours de linguistique générale (1915) is founded partly on the distinction between the diachronic study of linguistic features evolving in time and the synchronic study of a language as a complete system operating at a given moment. Saussure argued, against the historical bias of 19th‐century philology, that the synchronic dimension or ‘axis’ must be given precedence.

Noun: diachrony.

(Greek, through time) Processes are diachronic, and the nature of their existence as extended in time is sometimes contrasted with that of events (instantaneous) or even objects (see endurance/perdurance).

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Pertaining to events or phenomena as they change or exist over time.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - diakron, diakronisk

Nederlands (Dutch)
diachronisch

Français (French)
adj. - diachronique

Deutsch (German)
adj. - diachron, diachronisch, entwicklungsgeschichtlich

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - διαχρονικός

Italiano (Italian)
diacronico

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - diacrônico

Русский (Russian)
диахронический

Español (Spanish)
adj. - diacrónico

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - språk.diakronisk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
探求现象变化的, 历史的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 探求現象變化的, 歷史的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 통시적인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 通時的な

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮של התפתחות היסטורית‬

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