different between diphthong vs crasis

English

Alternative forms

• dipthong (obsolete)

Etymology

From French diphtongue, from Ancient Greek ????????? (díphthongos, “two sounds”), from ??? (dís, “twice”) + ??????? (phthóngos, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?f???(?)/; (proscribed) /?d?p???(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?f???/; (proscribed) /?d?p???/
• (CA; US, in accents with the cot-caught merger) IPA^(key): /?d?f???/; (proscribed) /?d?p???/

Noun

diphthong (plural diphthongs)

1. (phonetics) A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.

   Coordinate terms: monophthong, triphthong

2. (rare) A vowel digraph or ligature.
   • 1854, Robert Bigsby, Historical and Topographical Description of Repton, in the County of Derby, Woodfall and Kinder, page 47:

     And he might have written the name, also, with the diphthong æ, as well as the single vowel, in the initial syllable, throughout all the preceding forms.

   • 1860, Joseph E. Worcester, An Elementary Dictionary of the English Language, A New Edition, Swan, Brewer, and Tileston (publishers), page 12:

     An improper diphthong has only one of the vowels sounded; as, ea in heat, oa in coal.

   • 1874, Theophilus Dwight Hall, A Child’s First Latin Book, John Murray (publisher), page 3:

     The diphthong ae is sounded like ? (§7); that is, it has the sound of ey in they.

Derived terms

Related terms

• monophthong
• triphthong

Translations

See also

• glide
• ligature

Further reading

• diphthong on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (krâsis, “mixture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?e?s?s/

Noun

crasis (countable and uncountable, plural crases)

1. (obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
   • , 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• ACRISS, Sarics, crissa