Definitions for protasis

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protasis prot·a·sis

Spelling: [prot-uh-sis]

IPA: /ˈprɒt ə sɪs/

Protasis is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 417 anagrams from letters in protasis (aioprsst).

Definitions for protasis

noun

1. the clause expressing the condition in a conditional sentence, in English usually beginning with if. Compare apodosis.
2. the first part of an ancient drama, in which the characters are introduced and the subject is proposed. Compare catastasis, catastrophe (def 4), epitasis.
3. (in Aristotelian logic) a proposition, especially one used as a premise in a syllogism.

Origin of protasis

1610-20; Late Latin: introduction in a drama Greek prótasis proposition, literally, a stretching forward, equivalent to pro- pro-² + tásis a stretching (ta-

Examples for protasis

The protasis takes those tenses of the Subjunctive which are required by the Sequence of Tenses.

Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary apodosis?

The apodosis (qu'est-ce que je ferais) is omitted and only the protasis is expressed.

It went off, as G. assured M., exactly as the opening act of a piece—the protasis—should do.

The hank time-taking to a hinge one (protasis):—If ye ask (hinge), ye shall receive (hank).

Here we regularly have the Indicative in both protasis and Apodosis.

It is a protasis of the complex order, as M. Lysidas used to say.

The protasis in Conditional Sentences of this type always remains unchanged.

The protasis takes those tenses of the Subjunctive demanded by the sequence of tenses.