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Webster 1913 Edition


Prothesis


Proth′e-sis

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Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] a placing in public, fr. [GREEK] to set before; [GREEK] before + [GREEK] to set, put.]
1.
(Eccl.)
A credence table; – so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.
2.
(Med.)
Dunglison.

Webster 1828 Edition


Prothesis

PROTH'ESIS

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Noun.
[Gr.] In surgery, the addition of an artificial part to supply a defect of the body; as a wooden leg, &c.

Definition 2024


prothesis

prothesis

English

Noun

prothesis (plural protheses)

  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).
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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 + *dʰédʰeh₁- (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

References

  1. Merriam-Webster: etymology of prosthesis
  2. Merriam-Webster: etymology of prothesis
  3. Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής, ed. Institute of Manolis Triantafyllidis (1998): "πρόθεση": etymology of Latin prothesis.

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