crasis

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]
  2. A mixture or combination. countable,uncountable
  3. 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
    — 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 […]

词形变化

crases plural

词源

From Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixture”).
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