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

It consists of two parts, a protasis and an apodosis.

From The Simpkins Plot by Birmingham, George A.

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

They say that the apodosis begins with the first כן, and that in ver.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

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)