crasis

crasis englanniksi

1. One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.

2. (RQ:Burton Melancholy), 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 (..)

3. {{quote-text|en|year=1759|author=Laurence Sterne|title=The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman|page=24|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2003

4. A mixture or combination.

5. External vowel sandhi; contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.

6. (quote-book) is combined with an aspirated vowel, the lene is always changed (except in the Ionic dialect) into the corresponding aspirate (..)