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Webster 1913 Edition
Prothesis
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Proth′e-sis
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] a placing in public, fr. [GREEK] to set before; [GREEK] before + [GREEK] to set, put.]
1.
(Eccl.)
A credence table; – so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.
Webster 1828 Edition
Prothesis
PROTH'ESIS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
prothesis
prothesis
English
Noun
prothesis (plural protheses)
- (linguistics) The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in nother, from other (“a whole nother thing”), or Spanish esfera from Latin sphaera (“sphere”).
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the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word without changing the word's meaning or the rest of its structure
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a preposing”), from προτίθημι (protíthēmi, “I prepose”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I place”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro + *dʰédʰeh₁- (“to be putting, to be placing”).
Noun
prothesis (plural protheses)
- a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church
References
- ↑ Merriam-Webster: etymology of prosthesis
- ↑ Merriam-Webster: etymology of prothesis
- ↑ Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής, ed. Institute of Manolis Triantafyllidis (1998): "πρόθεση": etymology of Latin prothesis.