chronology · chronic
time order; long-lasting
Today this word meansThe order of events in time. In medicine, chronic means an illness that drags on.
From Greek chronos, time. Synchronize and anachronism share the root.
Orphic religion raised this word into a god: Chronos.
Worth noting
A different god and a different word from Kronos, the Titan who swallowed his children. The old man with a scythe became the emblem of time only after the Renaissance conflated the two.