古フランス語のpremisseから、ラテン語のpremisa, premise, assumption, assertion in front ofから、pre, in front of, before, -miss, to send out, to presentから、語源的にはmission, emitと同じ。 法的文書では、通常、土地や家を指し、その前に記載されたもの、説明的なものを意味する。
英語の語源
premise
premise: [14] Premise comes via Old French premisse from medieval Latin praemissa, a noun use of the past participle of Latin praemittere ‘send ahead’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix prae- ‘before’ and mittere ‘send’ (source of English admit, commit, mission, transmit, etc). It first entered English as a technical term in logic, in which its underlying meaning is of a proposition ‘set before’ someone.
But it was also used in the plural as a legal term, meaning ‘matters stated previously’. In a conveyance or will, such ‘matters’ were often houses or other buildings referred to specifically at the beginning of the document, and so the term premises came to denote such buildings. => admit, commit, mission, permit, submit, transmit
premise (n.)
late 14c., in logic, "a previous proposition from which another follows," from Old French premisse (14c.), from Medieval Latin premissa(propositio or sententia) "(the proposition) set before," noun use of fem. past participle of Latin praemittere "send forward, put before," from prae "before" (see pre-) + mittere "to send" (see mission). In legal documents it meant "matter previously stated" (early 15c.), which in deeds or wills often was a house or building, hence the extended meaning "house or building, with grounds" (1730).
premise (v.)
"to state before something else," mid-15c., from premise (n.). Related: Premised; premising.
例文
1. Well，now just a second，I don 't altogether agree with the premise .
うん、ちょっと、私はこの前提に完全に同意していません。
2.the basic premise of her argument
彼女の論証の基本的な前提
3.Let me premise my argument with a bit of history.
立論の前提としていくつかの史実を引用させてください。
4.We can deduce a conclusion from the premise .
この前提から結論を出すことができます。
5.I disagree with the premise that economic development has priority over the environment.