κρᾶσις
krasis
mixing, blending
Appears 44 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
κρᾶσις εως, ἡ (Ion. κρῆσις Vict. 1.32): (κεράννυμι):—A. mixing, blending of things which form a compound, as wine and water, opp. mechanical mixture (defined as an εἶδος μίξεως in which the constituents are liquids, Top. 122b26, cf. Stoic. 2.153; περὶ κράσεως, title of work by ): first in , τὴν δευτέραν γε κ. ἥρωσιν νέμω Fr. 55, cf. 9, 10.426b (pl.); κράσεις ἠπίων ἀκεσμάτων modes of compounding . . , Pr. 482; ἡ τῶν ἐναντίων κ. Lg. 889c; τὴν τῶν νεύρων φύσιν ἐξ ὀστοῦ καὶ σαρκὸς κράσεως . . συνεκεράσατο Ti. 74d; ἐκ κράσεως πρὸς ἄλληλα Tht. 152d; τὴν ἁρμονίαν κ. καὶ σύνθεσιν ἐναντίων εἶναι de An. 407b31; χρωμάτων ἀκριβὴς κ. Zeux. 5, cf. Col. 792a4. 2. temperature of the air, κρᾶσιν ὑγρὰν οὐκ ἔχων [αἰθήρ] Fr. 779.2; τὰς ὥρας κ. ἔχειν τοιαύτην ὥστε . . Phd. 111b, cf. 6.178; ἡ κ. τῶν ὡρέων temperate climate, Aër. 12; ὅσα περὶ κράσεις climates, Pr.lib.xivtit. 3. temperament, of the body or mind, κ. σώματος ib.871a24, cf. 953a30; διανοίας ib.909a17; κ. μελαγχολική ib.954b8: pl., αἱ τῶν σωμάτων κράσιες 103a, cf. 3.1.6: so in Medic., Nat.Hom. 4, etc.; περὶ κράσεων, title of work by Galen. 4. metaph., combination, union, κ. καὶ ἁρμονία τούτων ἡ ψυχή Phd. 86b, cf. 59a; μουσικῆς καὶ γυμναστικῆς κ. R. 441e, etc. 5. Gramm., crasis, i.e. the combination of the vowels of two syllables into one long vowel or diphthong, e.g. τοὔνομα for τὸ ὄνομα, ἁνήρ for ὁ ἀνήρ, τἆρα for τοι ἄρα, Adv. 128.2, EM 822.56, etc.; also, synaeresis of vowels, e.g. εὖ for ἐΰ, ib.392.54; but opp. ἔκθλιψις and συναίρεσις, An.Ox. 1.371.
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