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protheses

protheses is the plural of prothesis.

Meaning of prothesis

Noun (1)

prothesis (countable and uncountable, plural protheses)

  1. (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).
    Synonyms:
    prosthesis

Noun (2)

prothesis (countable and uncountable, plural protheses)

  1. The preparation and preliminary oblation of the Eucharistic bread and wine in the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.
  2. (broadly) Credence table.

Questions about protheses

What is protheses the plural of?
Protheses is the plural of prothesis.

Words near protheses in the dictionary

  1. protherapeia
  2. Prothero
  3. protherogenic
  4. Protheros
  5. prothese
  6. protheses
  7. prothesis
  8. prothesized
  9. prothetelic
  10. prothetelous
  11. prothetely

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