protasis

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒtəsɪs/

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) the antecedent in a conditional sentence

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

• (logic, grammar): antecedent, conditional, hypothesis

• apodosis
• epitasis
• catastasis
• catastrophe

• Psariots, prosaist

From the Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ta.sis/, [ˈprɔ.ta.sɪs]

protasis f (genitive protasis); third declension

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

Third declension i-stem.

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

• protaticus

• English: protasis
• ?Italian: protasi

• 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