tasis

See also: tasíš, tāsis, and tāsīs

English

Examples (prosody)
I love words that give me a chance to tr-r-r-r-rill my "r"s

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τάσις (tásis, “stretching, tension, intensity”).

tasis (uncountable)

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

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