tasis

Noun

(uncountable)

(prosody) Extending the sound of an utterance for the pleasure of saying or hearing it.
(usually in combination, medicine) A stretching.

Origin

From Latin tăsis, from Ancient Greek τάσις (tasis, “stretching, tension, intensity”)

See also: tāsis

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