Associations to the word «Prothesis»

Wiktionary

PROTHESIS, noun. (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.
PROTHESIS, noun. A type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church

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