crase

See craze.

• IPA^(key): /kɹeɪz/
• Rhymes: -eɪz

crase (third-person singular simple present crases, present participle crasing, simple past and past participle crased)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To break in pieces; to crack.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     The pot was crased.

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• CERAs, Cares, Ceras, Cesar, Creas, Races, SERCA, acers, acres, cares, carse, caser, ceras, e-cars, races, sacre, scare, serac, sérac

• IPA^(key): /kʁaz/

crase f (plural crases)

1. (linguistics) crasis (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)

• “crase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• âcres, caser, César, créas, races, sacre, sacré, scare

• Rhymes: -azi, -azɨ
• Hyphenation: cra‧se

crase f (plural crases)

1. crasis:
   1. assimilation of sounds of two identical vowels, throughout the evolution process of a language
   2. (grammar) name given to the process of the contraction of a + a, that is, a merge (assimilation) of the Portuguese preposition a (“to, for”) + the article a (“the”)

• An example of diachronic crasis is the Old Galician-Portuguese word door (“pain”), which has become, with time, the word dor (“pain”). Compare elisão (“elision”).
• The article a has feminine gender in Portuguese. Accordingly, both it and the contraction à are used only before feminine words. The translation of à into English, hence, is to the. It is a common mistake for people to write "a" when they should write "à" and vice-versa.

• crasear, craseado

• à, às, ao, aos, àquele, àqueles, àquela, àquelas