Crasis
/ˈkɹeɪsɪs/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]"
- 2 A mixture or combination. countable, uncountable
- 3 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. countable, uncountable
"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 […]"
Example
More examples"I still don't know how to use the crasis perfectly."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixture”).