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diachronical Definition


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diachronic
diachronical
adj
    1. linguistics.
      Concerned with the study of a language in terms of its origins and historical development. Opposite of synchronic.
Etymology: 20c in this sense; 19c, meaning ‘lasting through time': dia-1 + Greek chronos time +.



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