prothesis — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

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

   Gebrauch

   • zählbar
   • rhetoric
   • nicht zählbar

   Synonyme

   prosthesis

   Verwandte Wörter

   prosthesis

Substantiv

1. The preparation and preliminary oblation of the Eucharistic bread and wine in the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.

   Gebrauch

   • zählbar
   • nicht zählbar

2. Credence table.

   Gebrauch

   • broadly
   • zählbar
   • nicht zählbar