The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπρόθεσις“a setting before, preposition (grammar)”
- Latin · derived frompraepositiō“a setting before, a preposition”
- English todayprepositional
From Latin praepositiō (“a setting before, a preposition”), a calque of Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a setting before, preposition (grammar)”) + -al.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπρόθεσις all →
prothesis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.