premisa

See also: premisă and premisą

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

1. (logic) premise (either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced)

   Synonym: předpoklad

Declension

Declension of premisa (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	premisa	premisy
genitive	premisy	premis
dative	premise	premisám
accusative	premisu	premisy
vocative	premiso	premisy
locative	premise	premisách
instrumental	premisou	premisami

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

• premissa (reintegrationist)

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)

1. 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)

1. (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.

2. 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

	singular	plural
nominative	premisa	premisy
genitive	premisy	premis
dative	premisie	premisom
accusative	premisę	premisy
instrumental	premisą	premisami
locative	premisie	premisach
vocative	premiso	premisy

Further reading

• “premisa”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “premisa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 993
• Zygmunt Saloni, et al., editors (2020), “premisa”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish]‎^[3], 4. online edition, Warszawa

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)

1. (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