chronicler

See also: Chronicler

English

Etymology

chronicle +‎ -er

Noun

chronicler (plural chroniclers)

1. A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.
   • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268:

     But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.

   Synonyms: historian, annalist, chronist (uncommon)

Related terms

• see chronicle

Translations

person who writes a chronicle

• Arabic: مُؤَرِّخ (muʔarriḵ), مُؤَرِّخَة f (muʔarriḵa)
• Armenian: ժամանակագիր (hy) (žamanakagir)
• Catalan: cronista m or f
• Czech: kronikář (cs) m
• French: chroniqueur (fr) m
• Georgian: მემატიანე (memaṭiane)
• German: Chronist (de) m
• Hungarian: krónikaíró (hu)
• Irish: croiniceoir m, croinicí m, oiriseach m
• Italian: cronista (it) m or f
• Malay: periwayat, pembabad
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kronikør m, historieskriver m

  Nynorsk: kronikør m

• Old English: tīdwrītere m
• Portuguese: cronista m or f
• Serbo-Croatian: letopisac m
• Spanish: cronista (es) m or f
• Swedish: krönikeskrivare (sv) c, krönikeförfattare c, kronist c, annalist c, krönikör (sv) c
• Turkish: kronikçi (tr)
• Welsh: croniclydd (cy) m