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...
- including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word, usually ended with a...
- sounds. In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share...
- ("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...
- "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...
- diarrhea). The coronis (κορωνίς, korōnís, 'curved') marks a vowel contracted by crasis. It was formerly an apostrophe placed after the contracted vowel, but is...
- sounds in a word Synalepha, merged syllables Synaeresis, combined vowels Crasis, merged vowels or diphthongs Contraction (operator theory), in operator...
- also refer to coalescence by other metaplasms: synizesis, synaeresis or crasis. Spanish, Portuguese and Italian use synalepha, which is important in counting...
- merge with it in connected speech, producing a single vowel, possibly long (crasis). Here, "similar" means that nasalization can be disregarded, and that the...
- ('we think') and pensámos ('we thought'). proposes that it is a kind of crasis rather than phonemic distinction of /a/ and /ɐ/. It means that in falamos...