prothèse

See also: prothese and Prothese

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.tɛz/

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• Rhymes: -ɛz

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις (prósthesis), where the prefix was confused with pro-.

Noun

prothèse f (plural prothèses)

1. (medicine) prosthesis (artificial replacement for a body part)

Related terms

• prosthétique
• prosthétiste

Descendants

Descendants

• → Armenian: պրոթեզ (protʻez)
• → Czech: protéza
• → Esperanto: protezo
• → Finnish: proteesi
• → Greek: πρόθεση (próthesi)
• → Macedonian: протеза (proteza)
• → Polish: proteza
• → Romanian: proteză
• → Russian: проте́з (protéz)
  • → Kazakh: протез (protez)
• → Serbo-Croatian: protéza
• → Swedish: protes

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis).

Noun

prothèse f (plural prothèses)

1. (linguistics) prothesis

Further reading

• “prothèse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• trophées