crasis
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crasis
- /ˈkɹeɪsɪs/
Rhymes with -eɪsɪs
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From Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixture”).
noun crases
- One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body. Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]
- A mixture or combination.
- 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. 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 […]
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Talk about this word "crasis." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/crasis. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026. crasis. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/crasis "crasis." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/crasis.
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@misc{crasis_2026,
title = {crasis},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/crasis},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}
