proleptic
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From prolepsis (“anticipation”) + -ic.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pɹoʊˈlɛptɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]proleptic (comparative more proleptic, superlative most proleptic)
- (of a calendar) Extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.
- 1999, Kenneth R. Lang, Astrophysical Formulae: Space, Time, Matter and Cosmology, volume II, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:
- The Julian proleptic calendar is formed by applying the rules of the Julian calendar to times before Caesar's reform, and the Julian date (JD) specifies the particular instant of a day by ending the Julian day number with the fraction of the day elapsed since the preceding Greenwich noon.
- 2022, Tomasz Lelek, Jon Skeet, Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs: How to Make Good Programming Decisions, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 155:
- The .NET epoch is midnight at the start of January 1st, AD 1, although that's AD 1 in a proleptic Gregorian calendar, which refers to even more complexity we haven't talked about yet.
- (of an event) Assigned a date that is too early.
- 1985 June, Anthony Burgess, “The Prisoner of Fame”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- Herbert Gorman’s life of Joyce was written not only when Finnegans Wake was a long way from completion but with the handicap of the subject himself insisting on a hagiography featuring a prolonged, if proleptic, martyrdom.
- 1989, W. Paul Jones, Theological Worlds, Nashville: Abingdon Press, page 151:
- In World Two, Jesus can be seen as the proleptic event, giving promise of God's vindication of creation in and through history.
- (rhetoric) Anticipating and answering objections before they have been raised.
- Synonyms: anticipatory, procataleptic
- 1844, Thomas De Quincey, “Greece Under the Romans”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
- A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom.
- 2015 September 8, Alex Preston, “Submission by Michel Houellebecq review – satire that’s more subtle than it seems”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- Submission, as is fitting for a dystopia written in the mode of the “not yet”, ends in a proleptic future tense, speaking of what will come for François and (with rather less authorial interest) for the people of France.
- 2017 August 26, Bret Stephens, “Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
- 8) Be proleptic, a word that comes from the Greek for “anticipation.” That is, get the better of the major objection to your argument by raising and answering it in advance.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]calendar: extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption
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having been assigned too early a date
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Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French proleptique.
Adjective
[edit]proleptic m or n (feminine singular proleptică, masculine plural proleptici, feminine and neuter plural proleptice)
Declension
[edit]Declension of proleptic
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | proleptic | proleptică | proleptici | proleptice | ||
definite | prolepticul | proleptica | prolepticii | prolepticele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | proleptic | proleptice | proleptici | proleptice | ||
definite | prolepticului | prolepticei | prolepticilor | prolepticelor |
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