chronicle

Chronicle comes from Middle English cronicle, by way of Anglo-Norman cronicle and Old French cronike, from Latin chronica, which traces back to Greek khronikós, meaning "of or concerning time."

The word's root sense was simply about time itself — khronikós described things arranged or concerned with time. That temporal idea narrowed into the specific practice of setting events down in order.

Because chronicle descends from Greek khrónos, "time," it shares that root with other English words built on the same idea of time, though the facts here don't name which ones.