prothesis

  1. Noun.  (linguistics) The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in (term, nother) , from (term, other) (“a whole nother thing”), or Spanish (term, esfera) from Latin (term, sphaera) .
  2. Noun.  a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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