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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From προσ- (pros-) + θέσις (thésis); compare προστίθημι (prostíthēmi).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prós.tʰe.sis/ → /ˈpros.θe.sis/ → /ˈpros.θe.sis/
Noun
πρόσθεσῐς • (prósthesis) f (genitive προσθέσεως); third declension
- application
- attachment
- addition
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- πρόσθεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πρόσθεσις - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- “πρόσθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.