prothesis

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noun

Plural noun:

protheses

1.
(countable, rhetoric, uncountable)(phonology, rhetoric) 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).
2.
(countable, uncountable)(Christianity) The preparation and preliminary oblation of the Eucharistic bread and wine in the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.
3.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)(by extension) Credence table.

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prosthesis

Trái nghĩa

aphesis

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From prothesis, prosthesis, alteration (dropping the ‘s’) from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις (addition, augmentation), (English prosthesis) from προστίθημι (to add), from πρός (towards) + τίθημι (to place), from Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti + *dʰédʰeh₁- (to be putting, to be placing).