Chronos (/ˈkroÊŠnÉ’s/; Greek: ΧÏόνος, "time", pronounced [kÊ°rónos], also transliterated as Khronos or Latinised as Chronus) is the personification of Time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature. ... The other Greek word for time is kairos, meaning the indeterminate moment that is right for something to occur.