the act of artificially replacing a body part · a prosthesis, the artificial replacement for a body part · the addition of sound(s) at the beginning of a word after blurring of its semantics
çekim: çoğul prothesen
zıt: aphaeresis
köken: From Late Latin prothesis, from Ancient Greek; cognate with German Prothese, English prothese and (now more common) prosthesis and French prothèse.
prosthesis (artificial replacement for a body part) · prothesis (prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word) · anacrusis (unstressed note or notes before the first strong beat)
çekim: çoğul próteses
eş: próstese
köken: Borrowed from Late Latin prothesis, from Ancient Greek.
Borrowed from Russian проте́з (protéz), from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition”), from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “I add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I place”).