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πρότασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρότασις προτάσεως

Structure: προτασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: protei/nomai

Sense

  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

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀφελὲσ δὲ καὶ τὸ μὴ ὡσ ἐν προτάσει κατασκευάζειν, ὅτι καλὸν ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἐν συγκρίσει κάλλιον ἄλλου καλοῦ. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 15:1)
  • εἰ δὲ μὴ ἐνδέχεται ἅμα ὑπάρχειν τῷ αὐτῷ τἀναντία προσδιωρίσθω δ’ ἡμῖν καὶ ταύτῃ τῇ προτάσει τὰ εἰωθότα, ἐναντία δ’ ἐστὶ δόξα δόξῃ ἡ τῆσ ἀντιφάσεωσ, φανερὸν ὅτι ἀδύνατον ἅμα ὑπολαμβάνειν τὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι καὶ μὴ εἶναι τὸ αὐτό· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 4 57:2)

Synonyms

  1. putting forward

  2. proposition

  3. a proposal

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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