crasis

crasis
noun /ˈkɹeɪsɪs/
a) A mixture or combination.

Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences [...].

b) 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.

This is all that ever staggerd 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, seemd not to have had one single drop of Danish blood in his whole crasis


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  • Crasis — Cra sis (kr? s?s), n. [LL., temperament, fr. Gr. ????, fr. ???? to mix.] 1. (Med.) A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament. [1913 Webster] 2. (Gram.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Crasis — (gr.), s. Krasis …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • crasis — index condition (state) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Crasis — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis …   Wikipedia

  • crasis — (Del gr. krasis.) ► sustantivo femenino GRAMÁTICA Contracción, fenómeno que consiste en hacer una sola palabra de dos. IRREG. plural crasis * * * crasis 1 f. Gram. *Contracción. 2 Gram. *Sinéresis. * * * ► femenino GRAMÁTICA Contracción muy… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • crasis — /kray sis/, n., pl. crases / seez/. Archaic. composition; constitution; makeup. [1595 1605; < Gk krâsis mixture, blend, equiv. to kra (base of kerannýnai to mix) + sis SIS] * * * ▪ literature       in classical Greek, the contraction of two… …   Universalium

  • crasis — См. crasi …   Пятиязычный словарь лингвистических терминов

  • crasis — sustantivo femenino 1) lengua contracción. 2) medicina constitución, temperamento …   Diccionario de sinónimos y antónimos

  • crasis — n. composition, construction (Archaic) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • crasis — [ kreɪsɪs] noun (plural crases si:z) Phonetics a contraction of two adjacent vowels into one long vowel or diphthong. Origin C16: from Gk krasis mixture …   English new terms dictionary

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