Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or exhibiting prothesis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to prothesis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or involving
prothesis
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Examples
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I like the idea of prothetic a- being dialectal variation rather than a Prefix. because if it was a prefix we'd want to see it have a bit more functional load after all.
The hidden face 2010
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I will try to find more ways to take photos and narrate basic functions of what I call 'prothetic' devices - see, this is just a prosthetic brain like people have a prosthetic arm - I have a partially artifical external one created in order to augment what I have to give as near to an impairment free existance as possible - it takes more time but I can live at times as others, intellectually.
AAN: auto-immune disease of the brain and the effect on memory & the Brain Board; memory, regression & emotions Elizabeth McClung 2009
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Kim Dae-jung .... who made a very prothetic statement when recieving the Noble Prize
Senator: Non-profit co-ops would help drive down health costs 2009
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CNN I am so sad that you, and organization that the good Lord has availed to, has failed to mention the most prothetic political, social, religous event of our lifetime ... the appointment of the EU President.
House passes 'doc fix' bill previously defeated in Senate 2009
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Also the presence of several different prothetic vowels would seem to support this claim.
The hidden face 2010
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Taken individually, odd reduplication, the appearance of a prothetic a-, *or* a-vocalism of the root doesn't necessarily suggest non-IE origin, I realize.
The hidden face 2010
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Leaving aside our recent discussions, an prothetic s- doesn't really make much sense here as an artifact of borrowing, so I'm curious.
Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010
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To me, the prothetic a- is not a genuine prefix but is due to the presence or absence of syncope between different Aegean dialects and time periods.
The hidden face 2010
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Taken *collectively* however, reduplication, prothetic a- *and* a-vocalism of the root makes the attempts to etymologize this as a genuine PIE root very painful to me. ;o
The hidden face 2010
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Oh, *that's* where the prothetic abs from "300" went to.
Ferre: Abs Fab Cosmo7 2009
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