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πρόσθεση — meaning in English

prosthesi

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English meaning

  • addition noun The arithmetic operation of combining numbers to find a total.
  • prothesis noun The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish esfera from Greek (via Latin) sphaera (“sphere”) (without prothesis the word would have become *sfera).

Senses

πρόσθεση is used for these senses in English:

  • prothesis (phonology) The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish esfera from Greek (via Latin) (without prothesis the word would have become *sfera).

addition — full definition

  1. noun The arithmetic operation of combining numbers to find a total.
  2. noun Something new that has been added to something else.
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