prothese
Meaning
- (feminine,literally) the act of artificially replacing a body part
- (feminine,metonymically) a prosthesis, the artificial replacement for a body part
- (feminine) the addition of sound(s) at the beginning of a word after blurring of its semantics
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pro‧the‧se
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˌproːˈteː.zə/
Etymology
From Late Latin prothesis, from Ancient Greek; cognate with German Prothese, English prothese and (now more common) prosthesis and French prothèse.
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