The sad thing about time is that there’s never enough of it to pass around. Even if you are the mad hungry Titan and literally lend your name to the concept, you will still not have enough of it. That mad hungry Titan of Time was Cronos, the king of Titans. He gives us the Ancient Greek root “chron-“ which means time. A piece of time dedicated to Chronos (some story-time perhaps?) therefore becomes a chronicle, and the study of time, or studying something from the perspective of time, becomes chronology. If you want to know the time however you won’t always ask mythical beings for help. You turn to a device that can write down the time for you to read, like a chronograph. Or a watch.
When things happen at the same time, they are called synchronous (not coincidental). Alternatively, when things seem out of place, like Khaleesi with Starbucks, a basic disregard for other humans in today’s time and place by fellow humans, and your friends taking notes with fountain pens for good handwriting, they are called anachronisms (“ana-” roughly means back or against).
An illness that lasts over a long period of time becomes chronic, while a friend over a long period of time becomes your crony. Cronos’s cronies were all declared villains, and made things convenient for Zeus to swoop in, play the hero and distract everyone else from his other misdeeds. But he forgot about one thing that would eventually make him the true villain: time (also God of War games).
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