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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

  • ὅλωσ μὲν γὰρ συλλογισμὸσ ἐκ προτάσεών ἐστιν, τὸ δ’ ἐνθύμημα συλλογισμόσ ἐστι συνεστηκὼσ ἐκ τῶν εἰρημένων προτάσεων. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 3 7:3)
  • ἔτι ἐπεὶ δύο τρόποι τῶν προτάσεων, ἔχοντα μὲν ἀμφοτέρασ οὐδὲν κωλύει πράττειν παρὰ τὴν ἐπιστήμην, χρώμενον μέντοι τῇ καθόλου ἀλλὰ μὴ τῇ κατὰ μέροσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 34:1)
  • πρὸσ μὲν οὖν τὴν εὑρ́εσιν τά τε Τοπικὰ καὶ Μεθοδικὰ παρέδωκε προτάσεων πλῆθοσ, ἐξ ὧν πρὸσ τὰ προβλήματα πιθανῶν ἐπιχειρημάτων οἱο͂́ν τε εὐπορεῖν· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. a'. ARISTOTELHS 28:1)
  • Πρώτων προτάσεων α’ β’ γ’ δ’ ε’ σ’ ζ’ η’ θ’ ι’ ια’ ιβ’ ιγ’ ιδ’ ιε’ ισ’ ιζ’ ιη’. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. b'. QEOFRASTOS 10:4)
  • 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)

Synonyms

  1. putting forward

  2. proposition

  3. a proposal

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