κρᾶσις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κρῆσις (krêsis) (Ionic)

Etymology

From κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “to mix”) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krâː.sis/ → /ˈkra.sis/ → /ˈkra.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krâː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkra.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkra.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkra.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkra.sis/

Noun

κρᾶσῐς • (krâsis) f (genitive κρᾱ́σεως); third declension

1. mixture, compound, union
2. temperature, climate
3. temperament
4. (grammar) crasis (e.g. τὸ ἔλαιον > τοὔλαιον)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κρᾶσῐς; τῆς κρᾱ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κρᾶσῐς hē krâsis	τὼ κρᾱ́σει tṑ krā́sei	αἱ κρᾱ́σεις hai krā́seis
Genitive	τῆς κρᾱ́σεως tês krā́seōs	τοῖν κρᾱσέοιν toîn krāséoin	τῶν κρᾱ́σεων tôn krā́seōn
Dative	τῇ κρᾱ́σει têi krā́sei	τοῖν κρᾱσέοιν toîn krāséoin	ταῖς κρᾱ́σεσῐ / κρᾱ́σεσῐν taîs krā́sesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κρᾶσῐν tḕn krâsin	τὼ κρᾱ́σει tṑ krā́sei	τᾱ̀ς κρᾱ́σεις tā̀s krā́seis
Vocative	κρᾶσῐ krâsi	κρᾱ́σει krā́sei	κρᾱ́σεις krā́seis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ἀνάκρασις (anákrasis)
• ἔγκρασις (énkrasis)
• ἐπίκρασις (epíkrasis)
• κατάκρασις (katákrasis)
• σύγκρασις (súnkrasis)

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • admixture idem, page 12.
  • blend idem, page 83.
  • climate idem, page 137.
  • combination idem, page 144.
  • intermixture idem, page 451.
  • mixture idem, page 536.
  • temperature idem, page 860.
  • union idem, page 922.