Definition of Crasis. Meaning of Crasis. Synonyms of Crasis

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Definition of Crasis

Crasis
Crasis Cra"sis (kr?"s?s), n. [LL., temperament, fr. Gr. ????, fr. ???? to mix.] 1. (Med.) A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament. 2. (Gram.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; syn[ae]resis; as, cogo for coago.

Meaning of Crasis from wikipedia

- examples, crasis involves the grammaticalization of two individual lexical items into one. However, in other cases, like in the Gr**** examples, crasis is the...
- "crow's beak" or "bent mark"), the symbol written over a vowel contracted by crasis, was originally[when?] an apostrophe after the letter: τα᾽μά. In present...
- contractions or crasis. An abbreviation is a shortening by any of these or other methods. Acronyms, initialisms, contractions and crasis share some semantic...
- also refer to coalescence by other metaplasms: synizesis, synaeresis or crasis. Spanish, Portuguese and Italian use synalepha, which is important in counting...
- Coarticulation (Co-articulated consonant, Secondary articulation) Consonant harmony Crasis Dissimilation Labialisation Language game Lenition Metathesis Palatalization...
- Gr****, vowel contraction in general, including synaeresis and crasis, is often called crasis or is analysed into various classes using related terms. Trask...
- ("beautiful") and ἀγαθός ("good" or "virtuous"), the second of which is combined by crasis with καί "and" to form κἀγαθός. Werner Jaeger summarizes it as "the chivalrous...
- end (paragoge) Synalepha, two syllables becoming one, occurs by elision, crasis, synaeresis, or synizesis. Elision ("contraction" in English grammar), removal...
- and the cir****flex indicate stress and vowel height, the grave indicates crasis, the tilde represents nasalization, and the cedilla marks the result of...
- of English consonant clusters Co-articulated consonant Consonant harmony Crasis Deletion (phonology) Dissimilation Epenthesis Labialization Palatalization...