apodosis
/əˈpɒdəsɪs/noun
apodosis is a noun meaning “The consequential clause in a conditional sentence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-P-O-D-O-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of apodosis is apodoses.
What does apodosis mean?
noun
- 1
The consequential clause in a conditional sentence.
In "I will be coming if this weather holds up", "I will be coming" is the apodosis and "this weather holds up" is the protasis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce apodosis?
- /əˈpɒdəsɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of apodosis
- apodoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is apodosis?
Apodosis appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Apodosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the consequential clause in a conditional sentence:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does apodosis come from?
Learned borrowing from Late Latin apodosis, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόδοσις (apódosis).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).