tasis

See also: tāsis and tāsīs

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tăsis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek τάσις (tásis, “stretching, tension, intensity”) Template:examples-right

Noun

tasis (uncountable)

1. (prosody) Extending the sound of an utterance for the pleasure of saying or hearing it.
2. (usually in combination, medicine) A stretching.

Derived terms

• iridotasis
• myotasis

Anagrams

• Stasi, Tsais, saist, sista