crasis

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
  2. Noun.  A mixture or combination.
  3. Noun.  (linguistics) The contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.

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