προφάσεις (prophaseis)

προφάσεις is an Ancient Greek form of πρόφασις, meaning “excuse, pretext, cause”.

It can also be a form of πρνιφασις, “(corrupt form)”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of προφάω, “(garbled form)”.

Found 150 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.13.1: ‘τοιαύτας ἔχοντες προφάσεις καὶ αἰτίας, ὦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ ξύμμαχοι, ἀπέστημεν, σαφεῖς μὲν τοῖς ἀκούουσι γνῶναι ὡς εἰκότως ἐδράσαμεν, ἱκ …

All forms of πρόφασις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.