προφάσιος (prophasios)

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

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

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Hippocrates, De aere, aquis, locis 4: … νομιζόμεναι νοῦσοι. ἀνάγκη δὲ ὧδε ἔχειν, ὁκόταν αἱ κοιλίαι σκληραὶ ἔωσιν· ἔμπυοί τε πολλοὶ γίνονται ἀπὸ πάσης προφάσιος. τούτου δὲ αἴτιόν ἐστι τοῦ σώματος ἡ ἔντασις καὶ ἡ σκληρότης τῆς κοιλίης. ἡ γὰρ ξηρότης ῥηγματίας ποιεῖ εἶναι …

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.