Prothesis
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Etymology 1
Late prothesis (also prosthesis), alteration from , but often confused for a descendant of the Ancient Greek word .
Noun
- The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in from ("a whole nother thing"), or Spanish from Latin .
Etymology 2
From .
Noun
- a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church