prothesis

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒθəsɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɔθəsɪs/, /ˈpɹɑθəsɪs/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin prothesis, prosthesis, alteration (dropping the ‘s’) from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition, augmentation”), (English prosthesis) from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “I add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I 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.

Noun

prothesis (plural protheses)

1. (phonology) The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish esfera from Latin sphaera (“sphere”) (without prothesis the word would have become *sfera).

Synonyms

• prosthesis

Antonyms

• aphesis

Coordinate terms

• paragoge
• epenthesis

Related terms

• prosthesis

Translations

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

• Armenian: նախահավելված (hy) (naxahavelvac)
• Breton: rakkresk m
• Catalan: pròtesi (ca) f
• Dutch: prosthesis f
• Finnish: proteesi (fi)
• French: prothèse (fr) f
• German: Prothese (de) f
• Greek: πρόσθεση (el) f (prósthesi)
• Hungarian: protézis (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: prostesi (it) f
• Occitan: protèsi f, prostèsi f
• Persian: پیش‌هشت (pīšhašt~pīšhešt)
• Portuguese: prótese (pt) f
• Russian: проте́за (ru) f (protɛ́za)
• Spanish: prótesis (es) f
• Welsh: rhagosodiad m

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 + *dʰédʰeh₁ti (“to be putting, to be placing”).

Noun

prothesis (plural protheses)

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

Anagrams

• posterish, sophister, storeship