premissa

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praemissa (“set before”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pɾəˈmi.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pɾeˈmi.sa]

Noun

premissa f (plural premisses)

1. premise

Further reading

• “premissa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “premissa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “premissa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “premissa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Participle

premissa

1. inflection of premissus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

premissā

1. ablative feminine singular of premissus

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• premissene m or n

Noun

premissa n

1. definite neuter plural of premiss

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin praemissa (“set before”), feminine past participle of praemitto (“to send or put before”), from prae- (“pre-”) + mittō (“to send”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾeˈmi.sɐ/, /pɾiˈmi.sɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾeˈmi.sɐ/, /pɾiˈmi.sɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾeˈmi.sa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾɨˈmi.sɐ/

• Hyphenation: pre‧mis‧sa

Noun

premissa f (plural premissas)

1. premise (a proposition antecedently supposed or proved)
2. (logic) premise (any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced)

Related terms

• silogismo