protasis

English

Etymology

From Late Latin protasis, from Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis), from προτείνω (proteínō, “put forward, tender, propose”), from πρό (pró) + τείνω (teínō, “stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒtəsɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

protasis (plural protases)

1. The first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.

2. (logic, grammar) A clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence

   In "I will be coming if this weather holds up", "if this weather holds up" is the protasis, and "I will be coming" is the apodosis.

   • 2005 B. P. Bairan: An Introduction to Syllogistic Logic

     Every conditional statement is made up of two component statements. The component statement that follows the "if" is called antecedent (or the "implicans" or — rarely — the "protasis"), and the component statement that follows the "then" is the "consequent"(or the "implicate" or — rarely — the "apodosis").

   Synonyms: antecedent, conditional, hypothesis, implicans

   Coordinate term: apodosis

Antonyms

• Coordinate terms: apodosis, implicate

Translations

clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence

• Finnish: ehtolause (fi), protasis
• French: protase (fr) f
• Polish: poprzednik (pl) m

See also

• epitasis
• catastasis
• catastrophe

Anagrams

• Psariots, prosaist

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin protasis, from Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːˈtaː.sɪs/
• Hyphenation: pro‧ta‧sis

Noun

protasis f (plural protases)

1. protasis, dependent clause of a conditional sentence

See also

• voorzin

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ta.sis/, [ˈprɔt̪äs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ta.sis/, [ˈprɔːt̪äs̬is]

Noun

protasis f (genitive protasis); third declension

1. (logic) an assertion, proposition
2. the beginning or first part of a play

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	protasis	protasēs
Genitive	protasis	protasium
Dative	protasī	protasibus
Accusative	protasem	protasēs protasīs
Ablative	protase	protasibus
Vocative	protasis	protasēs

Synonyms

• (assertion, proposition): effātum (pure Latin)

Related terms

• protaticus

Descendants

• English: protasis
• Italian: protasi

References

• “prŏtăsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prŏtăsis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,264/3.