protesis

See also: prótesis

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin prothesis.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pro‧te‧sis

Noun

protesis f (plural proteses or protesissen, diminutive protesisje n)

1. (linguistics) alternative spelling of prothesis

Synonyms

• prothese

Descendants

• → Indonesian: protesis

Indonesian

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protesis

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Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch protesis, from Latin prothesis, from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις (prósthesis). Doublet of protese.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /proˈtesis/ [proˈt̪e.sɪs]
• Rhymes: -esis
• Syllabification: pro‧te‧sis

Noun

protesis (plural protesis-protesis)

1. (linguistics, prosody, phonology) prothesis, prosthesis (the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word without changing the word's meaning or the rest of its structure)

Related terms

• protese

Further reading

• “protesis”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016