tasis

See also: tasíš, tāsis, and tāsīs

English

Examples (prosody)

I love words that give me a chance
to tr-r-r-r-rill my "r"s

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τάσις (tásis, “stretching, tension, intensity”).

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

Anagrams

Asturian

Noun

tasis

  1. plural of tasi
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