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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “to mix”) + -σις (-sis).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krâː.sis/ → /ˈkra.sis/ → /ˈkra.sis/
Noun
κρᾶσῐς • (krâsis) f (genitive κρᾱ́σεως); third declension
- mixture, compound, union
- temperature, climate
- temperament
- (grammar) crasis (e.g. τὸ ἔλαιον > τοὔλαιον)
Inflection
References
Further reading
- “κρᾶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κρᾶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κρᾶσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κρᾶσις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.