Crasis
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkɹeɪsɪs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Crasis is a noun meaning A mixture or combination.
Meaning
A mixture or combination.
More Meanings
- (prosody, phonetics) The contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.
- (obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
Example Sentences
Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]
When in a crasis, a lene consonant […] is combined with an aspirated vowel, the lene is always changed (except in the Ionic dialect) into the corresponding aspirate […]
This is all that ever stagger'd my faith in regard to Yorick’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seem'd not to have had one single drop of Danish blood in his whole crasis
Word Forms
- crases
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include eccrisis, cambium, morbs, balaunce, having, corse.
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