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vowel
English
Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French vouel (French voyelle), from Latin v?c?lis (“voiced”), a semantic loan of Koine Greek ?????? (ph?nêen). Doublet of vocal.
Pronunciation
- enPR: vou??l, IPA(key): /?va?.?l/
- (also) enPR: voul, IPA(key): /va?l/
- Rhymes: -a??l, -a?l
Noun
vowel (plural vowels)
- (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
- (orthography) A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.
Antonyms
- (sound): consonant
- (letter): consonant
Derived terms
Related terms
- vocalic
- consonant
- liquid
See also
- vocalization
Placing of an element:
- prevocalic (occurring before a vowel)
- intervocalic (occurring between vowels)
- postvocalic (occurring after a vowel)
Types of vowels (phonetics):
- front, central, back
- rounded, unrounded
- close, near-close, close-mid, mid, open-mid, near-open, open
Translations
Verb
vowel (third-person singular simple present vowels, present participle vowelling or (US) voweling, simple past and past participle vowelled or (US) voweled)
- (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic)
Translations
Synonyms
- vowelize
- vocalize
Anagrams
- wolve
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crasis
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (krâsis, “mixture”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?e?s?s/
Noun
crasis (countable and uncountable, plural crases)
- (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
- , I.iii.1.2:
- A mixture or combination.
- (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
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