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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

  • ἱκανὴ μὲν ἦν πρόφασισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 109)
  • καὶ αὖθίσ γε παρὰ μὲν τῷ Λυσίᾳ ἡ πρόφασισ λέγεται ἀνεπιτηδεύτωσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 7 2:1)
  • τίσ γὰρ πύρ’ αἴθειν πρόφασισ Ἀργείων στρατόν; (Euripides, Rhesus, episode13)
  • μηδ̓ ἔστω πρόφασισ τῷ πλουσίῳ ἢ στομάχου ἢ κεφαλῆσ ὀδύνη, ὡσ μόνον δἰ αὐτὴν πίνειν τοῦ κρείττονοσ. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 1:5)
  • πρεσβύτην γὰρ ἤδη τοσοῦτον ἐνηλίκῳ παιδὶ καὶ γυναικὶ νύμφῃ παιδὸσ ἐπιγῆμαι κόρην ὑπηρέτου καὶ δημοσιεύοντοσ ἐπὶ μισθῷ πατρὸσ οὐδαμοῦ καλόν, ἀλλ’ εἴτε πρὸσ ἡδονὴν ταῦτ’ ἔπραξεν εἴτ’ ὀργῇ διὰ τὴν ἑταίραν ἀμυνόμενοσ τὸν υἱόν, αἰσχύνην ἔχει καὶ τὸ ἔργον καὶ ἡ πρόφασισ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato, chapter 6 1:2)
  • ἀτὰρ ἡ πρόφασίσ γε νὴ Δί’ εἰκότωσ ἔχει. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 2:3)

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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