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Crasis

//ˈkɹeɪsɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A mixture or combination. countable, uncountable
  3. 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 […]"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixture”).

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