• IPA: /ˈkɹeɪsɪs/

crasis

1. (obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:

     , I.iii.1.2:

     Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]

   • 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p. 24:

     This is all that ever stagger'd my faith in regard to Yorick’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seem'd not to have had one single drop of Danish blood in his whole crasis

2. A mixture or combination.
3. (linguistics) External vowel sandhi; contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.

• French: crase
• Italian: crasi
• Portuguese: crase
• Russian: кра́зис