protasis

See also: prótasis

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.

   Synonyms: antecedent, conditional, hypothesis, implicans

   Coordinate terms: apodosis, implicate, implicand

   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").

Related terms

• protatic

Translations

clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence

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

See also

• catastasis
• catastrophe
• epitasis
• protactic

Anagrams

• Psariots, prosaist

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately derived from Late 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, no diminutive)

1. protasis, dependent clause of a conditional sentence

See also

• voorzin

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *próder.

Ancient Greek πρό (pró)

Ancient Greek προ- (pro-)

Ancient Greek τείνω (teínō)

Ancient Greek προτείνω (proteínō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Hellenic *-tis

Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs)

Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)

Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis)bor.

Latin protasis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔ.ta.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔː.ta.s̬is]

Noun

protasis f (genitive protasis); third declension (Late Latin)

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

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	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.