prothesis

Etymology 1
From, , alteration (dropping the ‘s’) from ,  (English ) from , from  + , from ,  +.

However, often confused for a descendant of the Ancient Greek word (without the ), which is instead the source of a different term – see alternative etymology, below.

Noun

 * 1)  The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish  from Greek (via Latin)  (without prothesis the word would have become *sfera).

Translations

 * Arabic: إِبْدَاء
 * Armenian:
 * Breton: rakkresk
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: prosthesis
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Occitan: protèsi, prostèsi
 * Persian: پیش‌هشت
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: rhagosodiad

Etymology 2
From, from , from + , from  +.

Noun

 * 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)  Credence table.

Synonyms

 * proskomide