κρᾶσις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κρῆσις (krêsis) — Ionic
Etymology
From the root of κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “to mix”) + -σις (-sis).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /krâː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkra.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkra.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkra.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkra.sis/
Noun
κρᾶσῐς • (krâsĭs) f (genitive κρᾱ́σεως); third declension
- mixture, compound, union
- temperature, climate
- temperament
- (grammar) crasis (e.g. τὸ ἔλαιον > τοὔλαιον)
- (Byzantine) winecup
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κρᾶσῐς hē krâsĭs |
τὼ κρᾱ́σει tṑ krā́sei |
αἱ κρᾱ́σεις hai krā́seis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κρᾱ́σεως tês krā́seōs |
τοῖν κρᾱσέοιν toîn krāséoin |
τῶν κρᾱ́σεων tôn krā́seōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κρᾱ́σει tēî krā́sei |
τοῖν κρᾱσέοιν toîn krāséoin |
ταῖς κρᾱ́σεσῐ / κρᾱ́σεσῐν taîs krā́sesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κρᾶσῐν tḕn krâsĭn |
τὼ κρᾱ́σει tṑ krā́sei |
τᾱ̀ς κρᾱ́σεις tā̀s krā́seis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κρᾶσῐ krâsĭ |
κρᾱ́σει krā́sei |
κρᾱ́σεις krā́seis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀνάκρᾱσις (anákrāsis)
- ἔγκρᾱσις (énkrāsis)
- ἐπίκρᾱσις (epíkrāsis)
- κατάκρᾱσις (katákrāsis)
- κρᾱσίον (krāsíon)
- σύγκρᾱσις (súnkrāsis)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κεράννυμι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 675
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.