apodosis

American  

[uh-pod-uh-sis] / əˈpɒd ə sɪs /

noun

• apodoses
  plural

1. the clause expressing the consequence in a conditional sentence, often beginning with then, as “then I will” in “If you go, then I will.”

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apodosis British  

/ əˈpɒdəsɪs /

noun

1. logic grammar the consequent of a conditional statement, as the game will be cancelled in if it rains the game will be cancelled Compare protasis

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• apodoses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of apodosis

1630–40; < Late Latin < Greek: a returning, answering clause, equivalent to apo ( di ) dó ( nai ) to give back ( apo- apo- + didónai to give) + -sis -sis

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

apodosis

This style of prothesis without apodosis is very common in Arabic and should be preserved in translation, as it adds a naïveté to the style.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

But Mr. Caffyn's apodosis was never divulged, because, seized with an access of rage, he turned out the gas and hurried from the room.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton

What are we to suppose the suppressed apodosis of the proposition?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various

Result, acc. of, 173, B; 176; —— clauses of, 284; 297; —— —— in dependent apodosis, 322, and a; —— —— sequence of tense in, 268, 6. revertor, semi-deponent, 114, 3.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

To borrow a term from the Greek grammars, the protasis of the repartee is more troublesome than the apodosis.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel