Greek A-Level
Hiatus
What Hiatus means in Greek A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Hiatus
The occurrence of two vowel sounds in succession without an intervening consonant, often avoided in Attic prose through elision or crasis.
Topics that use Hiatus
- Grammar List — stress conventions, writing system, morphology (articles, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, gerunds/participles, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, numerals) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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