different between prothesis vs protheses

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

Noun

protheses

1. plural of prothesis

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

protheses

1. Plural form of prothese