"chronolect" meaning in All languages combined

See chronolect on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkɹɒnəʊlɛkt/ Forms: chronolects [plural]
Etymology: chrono- (“time”) + -lect (“[language] variety”) Etymology templates: {{confix|en|chrono|lect|gloss1=time|gloss2=􂀿language􂁀 variety}} chrono- (“time”) + -lect (“[language] variety”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} chronolect (plural chronolects)
  1. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) A specific variety of a language at a given time in its history of development. Wikipedia link: chronolect Categories (topical): Linguistics, Sociolinguistics Derived forms: chronolectal Related terms: topolect, geolect, regiolect

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for chronolect meaning in All languages combined (2.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "chrono",
        "3": "lect",
        "gloss1": "time",
        "gloss2": "􂀿language􂁀 variety"
      },
      "expansion": "chrono- (“time”) + -lect (“[language] variety”)",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "chrono- (“time”) + -lect (“[language] variety”)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chronolects",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chronolect (plural chronolects)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with chrono-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -lect",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sociolinguistics",
          "orig": "en:Sociolinguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Sociology",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "chronolectal"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Koine and Byzantine are chronolects of Greek."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Leuvense Bijdragen, volume LXX, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, page 52",
          "text": "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’.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A specific variety of a language at a given time in its history of development."
      ],
      "id": "en-chronolect-en-noun-~AsG-m1T",
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "sociolinguistics",
          "sociolinguistics"
        ],
        [
          "variety",
          "variety"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics, sociolinguistics) A specific variety of a language at a given time in its history of development."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "topolect"
        },
        {
          "word": "geolect"
        },
        {
          "word": "regiolect"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences",
        "social-science",
        "sociolinguistics",
        "sociology"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "chronolect"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹɒnəʊlɛkt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chronolect"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "chronolectal"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "chrono",
        "3": "lect",
        "gloss1": "time",
        "gloss2": "􂀿language􂁀 variety"
      },
      "expansion": "chrono- (“time”) + -lect (“[language] variety”)",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "chrono- (“time”) + -lect (“[language] variety”)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chronolects",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chronolect (plural chronolects)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "topolect"
    },
    {
      "word": "geolect"
    },
    {
      "word": "regiolect"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with chrono-",
        "English terms suffixed with -lect",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Linguistics",
        "en:Sociolinguistics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Koine and Byzantine are chronolects of Greek."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Leuvense Bijdragen, volume LXX, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, page 52",
          "text": "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’.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A specific variety of a language at a given time in its history of development."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "sociolinguistics",
          "sociolinguistics"
        ],
        [
          "variety",
          "variety"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics, sociolinguistics) A specific variety of a language at a given time in its history of development."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences",
        "social-science",
        "sociolinguistics",
        "sociology"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "chronolect"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹɒnəʊlɛkt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chronolect"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.