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Crasis vs Crases - What's the difference?

crasis | crases |

As nouns the difference between crasis and crases

is that crasis is one's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body while crases is plural of crasis.

crasis

English

Noun

(crases) (wikipedia crasis)
  • (obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
  • *, I.iii.1.2:
  • *:Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis , which they had from the stars and those celestial influences
  • * 1759 , Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p. 24:
    • This is all that ever stagger'd my faith in regard to Yorick''’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seem'd not to have had one single drop of ''Danish blood in his whole crasis
  • A mixture or combination.
  • (linguistics) 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.
  • * 1861 , William Edward Jelf, Accidence
    • When in a crasis , a lene consonant

    crases

    English

    Noun

    (head)

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