Word origin
[1595–1605; ‹ Gk
krâsis mixture, blend, equiv. to
krā- (base of
kerannýnai to mix) +
-sis -sis]This word is first recorded in the period 1595–1605. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Creole, redundant, toss, vernacular, zero-sis is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form from verbsabstract nouns of action, process, state, condition, etc. Other words that use theaffix -sis include: anamnesis, dieresis, ellipsis, prolepsis, symbiosis