protasis

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  1. noun Grammar The dependent clause of a conditional sentence, as if it rains in The game will be canceled if it rains.
  2. noun The first part of an ancient Greek or Roman drama, in which the characters and subject are introduced.

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  • Sīn. Where one protasis is followed by another opposed in meaning, but affirmative in form, the second is introduced by sīn; as hunc mihi timōrem ēripe; sī vērus est, nē opprimar, sīn falsus, ut timēre dēsinam, relieve me of this fear; if it is well founded, that I may not be destroyed; but if it is groundless, that I may cease to fear 4. —  New Latin Grammar
  • Respecting the imperfect in the protasis, though the apodosis contains the pluperfect, see Zumpt, S 525. —  C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
  • If he had given you the protasis, "You gaze into the fire as if you could read pictures in it," even you could have invented the inversion. —  Without Prejudice
  • It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. —  Ulysses
  • Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary apodosis? —  Ulysses
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  1. Late Latin, proposition, first part of a play, from Greek, premise of a syllogism, conditional clause, from proteinein, prota-, to propose : pro-, forward; see pro-2 + teinein, to stretch; see ten- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin protasis, from Greek πρότασις, a stretching forward, a proposition, from προτείνειν, stretch forward, πρό, forward, + τείνειν, stretch, extend: see tend.
 

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