The West Indies, more commonly referred to as the Caribbean, consists of three major island groups: the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles include some of the most well-known individual islands, including Cuba and Puerto Rico.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English Â© 2017. -chron-, root. -chron- comes from Greek, where it has the meaning time.'' This meaning is found in such words as: anachronism, chronic, chronicle, chronology, synchronize.
Chiron is a transliteration of the Greek word: ÏÎµÎ¯ÏÏÎ½; the pronunciation would be something like: Kheyrawn (with a trilled r). The phonetic break down of these letters is: Ï - Chi - an aspirated k sound, something like kh. ÎµÎ¯ - diphthong of Epsilon and Iota - pronounced as the word eh.