I still don't know how to use the crasis perfectly.
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Crasis
//ˈkɹeɪsɪs//
Synonyms for "crasis" (51 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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6 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 16 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κρᾶσις noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Breton
1 entries- krasis noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Catalan
1 entries- crasi noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Danish
1 entries- krasis noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Extremaduran
1 entries- crasi noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Finnish
1 entries- krasis noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
French
1 entries- crase noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
German
1 entries- Krasis noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Greek
1 entries- κράση noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Ido
1 entries- krazo noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Italian
1 entries- crasi noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Occitan
1 entries- crasi noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Portuguese
1 entries- crase noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Russian
1 entries- кра́зис noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Sicilian
1 entries- crasi noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Walloon
1 entries- etroclaedje noun (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]
Source: wiktionary
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
Source: wiktionary
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 […]
Source: wiktionary
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