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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

  • τοσαῦτα καὶ τοῦ Ποντιανοῦ εἰπόντοσ ‐ ἐφιλοτιμήσαντο γὰρ οἱ πολλοὶ τὰσ τοῦ Οὐλπιανοῦ ἀπολύσασθαι προτάσεισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 261)
  • ὅπου δὲ ποικίλον οὐδὲν οὐδ’ ἀπόρρητον οὐδὲ δεινόν, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ πράγμασι μικροῖσ καὶ δημοτικοῖσ ἐρωτήσεισ οἱο͂ν ἐν σχολῇ προτάσεισ εἰ γαμητέον εἰ πλευστέον εἰ δανειστέον τὰ δὲ μέγιστα πόλεων μαντεύματα φορᾶσ καρπῶν πέρι καὶ βοτῶν ἐπιγονῆσ καὶ σωμάτων ὑγιείασ· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 282)
  • ἴδια δὲ ὅσα ἐκ τῶν περὶ ἕκαστον εἶδοσ καὶ γένοσ προτάσεών ἐστιν, οἱο͂ν περὶ φυσικῶν εἰσι προτάσεισ ἐξ ὧν οὔτε ἐνθύμημα οὔτε συλλογισμὸσ ἔστι περὶ τῶν ἠθικῶν, καὶ περὶ τούτων ἄλλαι ἐξ ὧν οὐκ ἔσται περὶ τῶν φυσικῶν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 2 21:5)
  • ταῦτα δὲ ὅσῳ τισ ἂν βέλτιον ἐκλέγηται τὰσ προτάσεισ, λήσει ποιήσασ ἄλλην ἐπιστήμην τῆσ διαλεκτικῆσ καὶ ῥητορικῆσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 2 21:9)
  • λέγω δ’ εἴδη μὲν τὰσ καθ’ ἕκαστον γένοσ ἰδίασ προτάσεισ, τόπουσ δὲ τοὺσ κοινοὺσ ὁμοίωσ πάντων. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 2 22:3)

Synonyms

  1. putting forward

  2. proposition

  3. a proposal

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