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The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish esfera from Greek (via Latin) sphaera (“sphere”) (without prothesis the word would have become *sfera).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
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The preparation and preliminary oblation of the Eucharistic bread and wine in the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Christianity
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Credence table.
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Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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From Late Latin prothesis, prosthesis, alteration (dropping the ‘s’) from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition, augmentation”), (English prosthesis) from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “to add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to place”), from Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti + *dhédheh1- (“to be putting, to be placing”). However, often confused for a descendant of the Ancient Greek word πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a preposing, preposition”) (without the σ (s)), which is instead the source of a different term – see alternative etymology, below.
From Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a preposing”), from προτίθημι (protíthēmi, “to prepose”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to place”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro + *dhédheh1ti (“to be putting, to be placing”).
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
إِبْدَاء
(ʔibdāʔ)
— 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
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Armenian:
նախահավելված
(naxahavelvac)
— 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
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Breton:
rakkresk
— 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
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Bulgarian:
протеза
(proteza)
— 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
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Catalan:
pròtesi
— 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
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Danish:
protese
— 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
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Dutch:
prosthesis
— 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
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Finnish:
proteesi
— 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
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French:
prothèse
— 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
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German:
Prothese
— 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
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German:
Prosthese
— 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
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Greek:
πρόσθεση
(prósthesi)
— 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
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Hungarian:
protézis
— 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
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Irish:
próistéis
— 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
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Italian:
prostesi
— 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
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Occitan:
protèsi
— 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
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Occitan:
prostèsi
— 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
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Persian:
پیشهشت
(piš-hašt, piš-hešt)
— 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
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Portuguese:
prótese
— 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
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Russian:
проте́за
(protɛ́za)
— 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
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Spanish:
prótesis
— 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
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Spanish:
próstesis
— 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
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Ukrainian:
протеза
(protéza)
— 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
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Welsh:
rhagosodiad
— 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
