Prothesis

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /ˈpɹɑθəsÉ™s/

Late Latin prothesis, prosthesis, alteration from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, "addition of a letter in the beginning of a word, augmentation")

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.

(English prosthesis). However, often confused for a descendant of the Ancient Greek word πρόθεσις (próthesis, "a preposing, preposition"), which is instead the source of a different term – see alternative etymology, below.

Full definition of prothesis

Noun

1. (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").

Synonyms

• prosthesis

Antonyms

• aphesis

Related terms

• prosthesis

From Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis, "a preposing").

Noun

1. a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Anagrams

• sophister