Etymology · Ancient Greek
πρόσθεσις
4 English words descend from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις, most common first.
- prosthesisAn artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.
- prosth-Placed before, added.
- prostho-Placed before, added, at the front, at the tip, before.
- 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).