Etymology · Ancient Greek
πρόθεσις
2 English words descend from Ancient Greek πρόθεσις, most common first.
- prepositionalOf, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
- prothesisThe 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).