protensio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

prōtensĭo, ōnis, f. [protendo].

I Lit., a stretching out : manus, Hier. Ep. 29.—

II As a lit. transl. of πρότασις, a proposition , Ap. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 36.