Dictionary

protasis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpɹɒtəsɪs/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. The first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced.
   • It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
2. 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").

Forms

Coordinates

implicand · apodosis · implicate

Relateds

catastasis · epitasis · protactic · catastrophe · protatic

Synonyms

hypothesis · implicans · conditional · antecedent

Translations (6)

fr protase (clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence) · fi protasis (clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence) · ca pròtasi (clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence) · fi ehtolause (clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence) · es prótasis (clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence) · pl poprzednik (clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence)