prothetic
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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek προθετικός (prothetikós).
Adjective
prothetic (not comparable)
- (linguistics) of, relating to, or involving prothesis
- (phonology, of an instance of a phoneme) attached to the beginning of a word
- 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 10:
- Basque does not allow word-initial r-, adding a prothetic vowel in Latin and Romance loans (e.g. Bq. errege 'king' << Lat. regem)
Translations
of, relating to, or involving prothesis
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References
- ^ “prothetic, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
