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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πρόφασις προφάσει προφάσεις
Genitive προφάσεως προφάσοιν προφάσεων
Dative προφάσει προφάσοιν προφάσεσιν*
Accusative πρόφασιν προφάσει προφάσεις
Vocative πρόφασι προφάσει προφάσεις

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

  • καὶ οἱ τακτικοὶ καὶ οἱ σατράπαι, ἐζήτουν πρόφασιν εὑρεῖν κατὰ Δανιήλ. καὶ πᾶσαν πρόφασιν καὶ παράπτωμα καὶ ἀμπλάκημα οὐχ εὗρον κατ’ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι πιστὸσ ἦν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 6:4)
  • καὶ εἶπον οἱ τακτικοί. οὐχ εὑρήσομεν κατὰ Δανιὴλ πρόφασιν, εἰ μὴ ἐν νομίμοισ Θεοῦ αὐτοῦ. ‐ (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 6:5)
  • οὐδεμίαν γὰρ ἀξιώσειν δύναμιν ὁμόσε χωρεῖν ἀνδράσι κρατίστοισ μὲν τὰ πολέμια τῶν Ἑλλήνων, ἀπονενοημένωσ δὲ πρὸσ τὸ ζῆν διακειμένοισ, δικαίαν δὲ ὀργὴν καὶ πρόφασιν εὐπρεπῆ τῆσ ἀνάγκησ ἔχουσι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 9 3:1)
  • τὸ δὲ νῦν εἶναι ἱκανὸν ἦν ὑποδεῖξαι ὡσ οὐδ’ οἱ διὰ ταύτην λέγοντεσ αὑτοὺσ ἀποδίδοσθαι τὴν πρόφασιν ἀληθεύοιεν ἄν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 6:7)

Synonyms

  1. that which is alleged as the cause

  2. a mere pretext

  3. occasion

  4. suggestion

Related

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

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