κρᾶσιν (krasin)

κρᾶσιν is an Ancient Greek form of κράς, meaning “head”.

It can also be a form of κρᾶσις, “mixture”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 80 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.63: … ὅτι ἡ ψυχὴ σῶμά ἐστι λεπτομερὲς παρʼ ὅλον τὸ ἄθροισμα παρεσπαρμένον, προσεμφερέστατον δὲ πνεύματι θερμοῦ τινα κρᾶσιν ἔχοντι καὶ πῇ μὲν τούτῳ προσεμφερές, πῇ δὲ τούτῳ· ἔστι δὲ τὸ 〈τρίτον〉 μέρος πολλὴν παραλλαγὴν εἰληφὸς τῇ λεπτ …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 2.3.3·2: … εν ἀρχῆς μὲν ἄνευ γεγονέναι ζῷον οὐ λέγομεν, ἀρχὴν δʼ εἶναι ζῳογονίας, ὑφʼ ἧς πρῶτον ἡ ὕλη μετέβαλε, δυνάμεως κρᾶσίν τινα καὶ μῖξιν ἐνεργασαμένης γόνιμον· τὸ δʼ ᾠὸν ἐπιγέννημα εἶναι, καθάπερ τὸ αἷμα καὶ τὸ γάλα, τοῦ ζῴου μετὰ …

All forms of κράς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.