crasis

Meaning of crasis

noun

a contraction of two adjacent vowels into one long vowel or diphthong, for example the reduction of words in ancient Greek from three syllables to two.

mid 16th century (as a medical term denoting the blending of physical qualities giving rise to a particular state of health): from Greek krasis ‘mixture’.

Information about crasis

  • It is a name.
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Hyphenation of crasis

cra-sis

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • crasis is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of crasis

crissa

Words that rhyme with crasis

asis, anabasis, basis, catabasis, ecbasis, histometabasis, hypobasis, katabasis, kolbasis, metabasis, orchiocatabasis, parabasis, rebasis, symbasis, metergasis, Atrahasis, Oreophasis, apophasis, deemphasis, ecphasis, emphasis, misemphasis, overemphasis, periphasis, phasis, preemphasis, prophasis, reemphasis, superemphasis, ultraemphasis, underemphasis, Wuchereriasis, acanthamebiasis, acariasis, acaridiasis, acroscleriasis, agomphiasis, allantiasis, amebiasis, anaphalantiasis, anchylostomiasis, ancylostomiasis, angioelephantiasis, angiostrongyliasis, anisakiasis, ankylostomiasis, appendicolithiasis, appendolithiasis, arseniasis, arteriasis

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