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Etymology

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

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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.
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Etymology

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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.

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

Noun

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protasis f (plural protases)

  1. protasis, dependent clause of a conditional sentence

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Latin

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Etymology

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From the Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis).

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Noun

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protasis f (genitive protasis); third declension

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

Declension

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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

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

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  • English: protasis
  • Italian: protasi

References

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  • 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.