Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chronolect

/ˈkɹɒnəʊlɛkt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: chronolect
IPA: /ˈkɹɒnəʊlɛkt/

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A specific variety of a language at a given time in its history of development.

Example Sentences

"Koine and Byzantine are chronolects of Greek."
"Taking lect in the sense of ‘variety’ (and not ‘social variety’), I have coined spatiolect ‘spatial variety’, chronolect ‘chronological variety’, communolect ‘variety of a community (however defined)’, ecolect ‘variety of an economic class’, ethnolect ‘variety of an ethnic group’, religiolect ‘variety of a religious group’, sexlect ‘variety of one of the sexes or of people with a certain sexual orientation’, urbolect ‘urban variety’, and rurolect ‘rural variety’."

Etymology

From chrono- (“time”) + -lect (“[language] variety”).

Word Breakdown

Prefix: chrono
Suffix: lect

Inflected Forms

chronolects (plural)

Derived Forms

chronolectal

Frequently Paired Words

topolect geolect regiolect dialect

Questions

How do you pronounce chronolect?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɹɒnəʊlɛkt/.
What does chronolect mean?: A specific variety of a language at a given time in its history of development.
Where does chronolect come from?: From chrono- (“time”) + -lect (“[language] variety”).

How to pronounce chronolect

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