prosthesis

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• /pɹɒsˈθiːsɪs/
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Via Latin, from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition”), from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “to add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to place”), from Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti + *dhédheh1ti (“to be putting, to be placing”). By surface analysis, prosth- + -esis.

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: protese — artificial replacement for a body part
• Albanian: protezë — artificial replacement for a body part
• Arabic: بَدِيل اِصْطِنَاعِيّ (badīl iṣṭināʕiyy) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Arabic: طَرَف اِصْطِنَاعِيّ (ṭaraf iṣṭināʕiyy) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Armenian: պրոթեզ (protʻez) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Azerbaijani: protez — artificial replacement for a body part
• Belarusian: пратэ́з (pratéz) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Bulgarian: проте́за (protéza) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Catalan: pròtesi — artificial replacement for a body part
• Chinese Mandarin: 義肢 /义肢 (yìzhī) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Chinese Mandarin: 假肢 (jiǎzhī) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Czech: protéza — artificial replacement for a body part
• Danish: protese — artificial replacement for a body part
• Dutch: prothese — artificial replacement for a body part
• Esperanto: protezo — artificial replacement for a body part
• Estonian: protees — artificial replacement for a body part
• Finnish: proteesi — artificial replacement for a body part
• Finnish: tekoraaja — artificial replacement for a body part
• French: prothèse — artificial replacement for a body part
• Galician: prótese — artificial replacement for a body part
• Georgian: პროთეზი (ṗrotezi) — artificial replacement for a body part
• German: Prothese — artificial replacement for a body part
• German: Kunstglied — artificial replacement for a body part
• Greek: πρόθεση (próthesi) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Hebrew: תּוֹתָב (totáv) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Hebrew: פְּרוֹתֶזָה (proteza) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Hungarian: protézis — artificial replacement for a body part
• Icelandic: gervilimur — artificial replacement for a body part
• Italian: protesi — artificial replacement for a body part
• Japanese: 義肢 (gishi) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Kazakh: протез (protez) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Kazakh: жасанды мүше (jasandy müşe) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Korean: 의지 (uiji) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Korean: 보철 (bocheol) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Kyrgyz: протез (protez) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Latvian: protēze — artificial replacement for a body part
• Lithuanian: protezas — artificial replacement for a body part
• Macedonian: проте́за (protéza) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Norwegian Bokmål: protese — artificial replacement for a body part
• Norwegian Nynorsk: protese — artificial replacement for a body part
• Occitan: protèsi — artificial replacement for a body part
• Persian: پروتز (porotez) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Persian: اندام مصنوعی (andâm-e masnu'i) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Polish: proteza — artificial replacement for a body part
• Portuguese: prótese — artificial replacement for a body part
• Romanian: proteză — artificial replacement for a body part
• Russian: проте́з (protɛ́z) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Serbo-Croatian: проте́за — artificial replacement for a body part
• Serbo-Croatian: protéza — artificial replacement for a body part
• Slovak: protéza — artificial replacement for a body part
• Slovene: proteza — artificial replacement for a body part
• Spanish: prótesis — artificial replacement for a body part
• Swahili: kiungo bandia — artificial replacement for a body part
• Swedish: protes — artificial replacement for a body part
• Tajik: протез (protez) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Turkish: protez — artificial replacement for a body part
• Ukrainian: проте́з (protéz) — artificial replacement for a body part
• Uzbek: protez — artificial replacement for a body part