χρόνος
chronos

Greek noun

Last edited: 2024-12-11
Primary meaning time
Literal translation time
Variants
χρόνος chronos
Edited by
time astronomical quantity

(...) ἔστι γὰρ ἐνιαύσιος χρόνος, ἐν ᾧ ὁ ἥλιος περιπορεύεται τὸν ζῳδιακὸν κύκλον καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ σημείου ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ σημεῖον ἀποκαθίσταται.

‘(...) for it is the time of a year, in which the sun goes around the zodiac and is returned from the same point to the same point.’

— Geminus 1.7

Genre: astronomy
Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 2

time period time interval

Αἱ πᾶσαι οὖν ἡμέραι τούτων τῶν δʹ χρόνων συντιθέμεναι ποιοῦσι τξεʹ δʹʹ, ὅσαιπερ ἦσαν αἱ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ.

‘All the days of these 4 time periods then, when put together, make 365 and a 4th, as much as those of the year were.’

— Geminus 1.17

Genre: astronomy
Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 5

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). χρόνος (Lemma #1120). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1120/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). χρόνος (Lemma #1120). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1120/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). χρόνος (Lemma #1120). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1120/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) χρόνος (Lemma #1120), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1120/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1120,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {χρόνος ({Lemma} #1120)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1120/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1120/},
}