πρότασις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

προτείνω (proteínō, “I stretch forth”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pró.ta.sis/ → /ˈpro.ta.sis/ → /ˈpro.ta.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pró.ta.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ta.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ta.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ta.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ta.sis/

Noun

πρότᾰσῐς • (prótasis) f (genitive προτᾰ́σεως); third declension

1. putting forward; that which is put forward
2. (in logic) proposition
3. (in grammar) hypothetical clause of the sentence, answered by the apodosis
4. question proposed, problem
5. the earlier part of a dramatic poem, opposed to the epitasis and catastrophe
6. a proposal, proposition

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πρότᾰσῐς; τῆς προτᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πρότᾰσῐς hē prótasis	τὼ προτᾰ́σει tṑ protásei	αἱ προτᾰ́σεις hai protáseis
Genitive	τῆς προτᾰ́σεως tês protáseōs	τοῖν προτᾰσέοιν toîn protaséoin	τῶν προτᾰ́σεων tôn protáseōn
Dative	τῇ προτᾰ́σει têi protásei	τοῖν προτᾰσέοιν toîn protaséoin	ταῖς προτᾰ́σεσῐ / προτᾰ́σεσῐν taîs protásesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πρότᾰσῐν tḕn prótasin	τὼ προτᾰ́σει tṑ protásei	τᾱ̀ς προτᾰ́σεις tā̀s protáseis
Vocative	πρότᾰσῐ prótasi	προτᾰ́σει protásei	προτᾰ́σεις protáseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• προτατικός (protatikós)

Descendants

• → Latin: protasis
  • → English: protasis (learned)
  • → French: protase (learned)

See also

• ἀντιπρότασις (antiprótasis)
• ἀπόδοσις (apódosis)
• ἐπίτασις (epítasis)
• καταστροφή (katastrophḗ)

Further reading

• “πρότασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πρότασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πρότασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • premiss idem, page 635.