premisa
Czech
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin praemissa, feminine of praemissus (“sent forth or forward or ahead”), perfect passive participle of praemittō (“to send forth or forward or ahead”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈprɛmɪsa]
- Rhymes: -ɪsa
- Hyphenation: pre‧mi‧sa
Noun
premisa f
- (logic) premise (either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced)
- Synonym: předpoklad
Declension
See also
- závěr m inan
Further reading
- “premisa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “premisa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “premisa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin praemissa, feminine of praemissus (“sent forth or forward or ahead”), perfect passive participle of praemittō (“to send forth or forward or ahead”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -isa
- Hyphenation: pre‧mi‧sa
Noun
premisa f (plural premisas)
- premise (proposition antecedently supposed or proved)
Further reading
- “premisa”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
- “premisa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin praemissa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prɛˈmi.sa/
- Rhymes: -isa
- Syllabification: pre‧mi‧sa
Noun
premisa f(obsolete)
- (logic) synonym of przesłanka (“premise”) (either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced)
- 1875–1878, Bolesław Prus (Aleksander Głowacki), Kroniki, volume V, Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, published 1953–1956, page 337:
- Z powyższych premis doszedłem do następujących wniosków.
- From the above premises I arrived at the following conclusions.
- 1881, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Szkice literackie (Dzieła; 45–46), collective edition, volume II, Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, published 1951, page 210:
- Z fałszywych premis można wyprowadzić wniosek logiczny, ale nigdy prawdziwy.
- From false premises one can derive a logical conclusion, but never a true one.
- 1897, Stanisław Tarnowski, “Henryk Sienkiewicz”, in Studia do historii literatury polskiej. Wiek XIX. Rozprawy i sprawozdania[1], volume 5, Kraków: Spółka Wydawnicza Polska, page 345:
- Pozostaje teraz zrobić wniosek z tych premis, podsumować szczegółowo wrażenia z jego dzieł, i zamknąć rzecz ogólnym sądem o dziele jego dotychczasowego życia, jako o całości.
- Now it only remains to make a conclusion from those premises, summarize in detail the feelings from his works, and close the thing with a general judgment of the work of his life to date, as a whole.
- synonym of urlop / zwolnienie (“leave”) (time away from one's work)
- Synonym: permisja
- 1949 [1886], Henryk Sienkiewicz, Potop (Dzieła; 11–16), collective edition, volume I, Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, page 201 (1. ed.):
- Uczynił się taki tumult, że aż wojewoda poznański nadbiegi z kilku rotmistrzami uspokajać i tłumaczyć, że starościc tylko na tydzień, dla bardzo pilnych spraw, wziął permisję[sic – meaning premisę].
- There was such a commotion, that the Poznań voivode came running with several captains to calm things down and explain, that the administration head had taken a leave, only for a week, for very urgent matters.
Declension
Declension of premisa
Further reading
- premisa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “premisa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 993
- “premisa”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish], 2022
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin praemissa, feminine of praemissus (“sent forth or forward or ahead”), perfect passive participle of praemittō (“to send forth or forward or ahead”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾeˈmisa/ [pɾeˈmi.sa]
- Rhymes: -isa
- Syllabification: pre‧mi‧sa
Noun
premisa f (plural premisas)
- (logic) premise (either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced)
Further reading
- “premiso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025