[B-Greek] Definition of crasis
Marion Fox
mrfox1 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 27 15:40:37 EST 2006
I have seen the word "crasis" in several books and did not see a definition
of this word. From the context it seems to me that it either refers to the
joining of two words into one word or to the blending of some letters into
a dipthong. For example, in English we join the words "every" and "one" to
make one word "everyone."
I looked this word up in my dictionaries and the only definition I could
find was: "... gram. a figure by which two different letters are contracted
into one long letter or into a diphthong: called also Synae-resis."
Is the term "crasis" also used for the joining of two words such as: APO and
STELLW into APOSTELLW?
Yours in His service,
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Marion Fox
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