Translation
on account of; because of
Examples
discesserunt.
They left because of the war.
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I did this for your sake.
frigus mansimus.
We stayed at home because of the cold.
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He was sitting beside the road.
tacuerunt.
Because of this everyone fell silent.
Propter takes the accusative and means 'because of, on account of'. It grew out of prope, 'near', and that local sense survives: propter viam is 'beside the road'. For causes it competes with ob plus the accusative and with a bare ablative of cause, but propter is the plainest and safest choice in prose. Note that it governs a noun, not a clause: for 'because' with a whole verb after it you need quia or quod.
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