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πρόφασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόφασις πρόφασεως

Structure: προφασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: profai/nw or pro/fhmi

Sense

  1. that which is alleged as the cause, an allegation, plea, plea
  2. a mere pretext, a pretence, excuse, the pretext or pretence for, in pretence, from or on, excuse, an excuse
  3. occasion, an excuse, an excuse, pretences, excuse, shuffling
  4. suggestion.

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ξυνὸσ μὲν ἁπάντων τῶν ἄρθρων πόνοσ ἡ ἀρθρῖτισ· ἀλλὰ ποδῶν μὲν ποδάγρην καλέομεν, ἰσχιάδα δὲ ἰσχίων, χειράγρην δὲ χειρῶν· ἤν γε μὲν σχέδιοσ ᾖ ἐπί τινι τῶν προσκαίρων αἰτίων ὁ πόνοσ, ἢ κρύβδην δὲ μελετήσῃ πολλὸν χρόνον ἡ νοῦσοσ, εὖτε ἐπὶ προφάσι σμικρῇ ὁ πόνοσ καὶ ἡ νοῦσοσ ἐξήφθη· ἔστι δὲ ἁπάντων ξυλλήβδην τῶν νεύρων ἡ πάθη, ἢν αὐξηθὲν τὸ κακὸν ἅπασι ἐπιφοιτῇ · ἀρχὴ δὲ νεῦρα τὰ δεσμὰ τῶν ἄρθρων, καὶ ὁκόσα ἐξ ὀστέων πέφυκεκαὶ ἐν ὀστέοισι ἐμφύνει. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 303)

Synonyms

  1. that which is alleged as the cause

  2. a mere pretext

  3. occasion

  4. suggestion

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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