Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

crasis

/ˈkɹeɪsɪs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cra-sis
IPA: /ˈkɹeɪsɪs/

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

A mixture or combination.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

Usage

Inflected Forms

crases (plural)

Rhymes With

basis oasis stasis homeostasis glacis chronostasis aminostasis

Questions

How do you pronounce crasis?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɹeɪsɪs/.
What does crasis mean?: One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
Where does crasis come from?: From Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixture”).

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