"protasis" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɹɒtəsɪs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-protasis.wav Forms: protases [plural]
Etymology: From Late Latin protasis, from Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis), from προτείνω (proteínō, “put forward, tender, propose”), from πρό (pró) + τείνω (teínō, “stretch”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|LL.|protasis}} Late Latin protasis, {{uder|en|grc|πρότασις}} Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis) Head templates: {{en-noun|protases}} protasis (plural protases)
  1. The first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced.
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  2. (logic, grammar) A clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence. Categories (topical): Grammar, Logic Synonyms: antecedent, conditional, hypothesis, implicans Translations (clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence): ehtolause (Finnish), protasis (Finnish), protase [feminine] (French), poprzednik [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-protasis-en-noun-mhXYNC~i Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 72 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 30 70 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences Disambiguation of 'clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: protatic, catastasis, catastrophe, epitasis, protactic

Inflected forms

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