Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

προφασίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προφασίζομαι προφασιοῦμαι προὐφασισάμην

Structure: προ (Prefix) + φασίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: from pro/fasis

Sense

  1. to set up as a pretext or excuse, allege by way of excuse, plead in excuse, to allege as an excuse that . ., to make excuses, to be used as a pretext
  2. to allege, that

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Aorist tense

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

  • δεινὸν δέ μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι, εἰ ὅταν μὲν εἰσφορὰν εἰσενεγκεῖν δέη, ἣν πάντεσ εἴσεσθαι μέλλουσιν, οὐκ ἐθέλουσιν, ἀλλὰ πενίαν προφασίζονται, ἐφ’ οἷσ δὲ θάνατόσ ἐστιν ἡ ζημία καὶ λαθεῖν αὐτοῖσ συνέφερε, ταῦτα ἐπ’ εὐνοίᾳ φασὶ τῇ ὑμετέρα παρανομῆσαι. (Lysias, Speeches, 21:1)

Synonyms

  1. to set up as a pretext or excuse

  2. to allege

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

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