different between prothesis vs prosiopesis

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p????s?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p????s?s/, /?p????s?s/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin prothesis, prosthesis, alteration (dropping the ‘s’) from Ancient Greek ????????? (prósthesis, “addition, augmentation”), (English prosthesis) from ?????????? (prostíth?mi, “I add”), from ???? (prós, “towards”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “I place”), from Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti + *d?éd?eh?- (“to be putting, to be placing”).

However, often confused for a descendant of the Ancient Greek word ???????? (próthesis, “a preposing, preposition”) (without the ? (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

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ???????? (próthesis, “a preposing”), from ????????? (protíth?mi, “I prepose”), from ??? (pró, “before”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “I place”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro + *d?éd?eh?- (“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

Anagrams

• sophister, storeship

English

Etymology

Coined in 1917 by the Danish linguist Jens Otto Harry Jespersen: pro- (“before”) (from the Ancient Greek preposition ??? (pró)) + ???????? (si?p?sis, “taciturnity”) (from ?????? (si?pá?, “to be silent”)) + -??? (-sis), (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?s'??p??s?s, pr?'s??p??s?s, IPA^(key): /?p??s????pi?s?s/ /?p??s???pi?s?s/
• (General American) enPR: pr?s'i?pi?s?s, IPA^(key): /?p??sio??pis?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s?s
• Hyphenation: pros?i?o?pe?sis

Noun

prosiopesis (countable and uncountable, plural prosiopeses)

1. (grammar) Ellipsis of the beginning of a grammatical construction, common in informal speech and spontaneous written electronic communication, frequently occurring in stock phrases and interjections.
   • 2003, David Crystal, A Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics, page 159 (5th Ed.; Wiley–Blackwell; ?ISBN, 9780631226642)

     Traditional rhetoric was much concerned with the phenomenon of elision, because of the implications for constructing well-formed metrical lines, which would scan well. In rhetorical terminology, an elision in word-initial position was known as aphaeresis or prosiopesis, in word-medial position as syncope, and in word-final position as apocope. A similar classification was made for the opposite of elision, intrusion.

Coordinate terms

• (forms of word-elision): (from word-final position) apocope, aposiopesis; (from word-medial position) syncope, *synsiopesis

Related terms

• prosiopetic (rare)

References