πρόσθεσις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ποτίθεσις (potíthesis) — Doric

Etymology

From προσ- (pros-) +‎ θέσις (thésis); compare προστίθημι (prostíthēmi).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prós.tʰe.sis/ → /ˈpros.θe.sis/ → /ˈpros.θe.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /prós.tʰe.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpros.tʰe.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpros.θe.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpros.θe.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpros.θe.sis/

Noun

πρόσθεσῐς • (prósthesis) f (genitive προσθέσεως); third declension

1. application
2. attachment
3. addition

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πρόσθεσῐς; τῆς προσθέσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πρόσθεσῐς hē prósthesis	τὼ προσθέσει tṑ prosthései	αἱ προσθέσεις hai prosthéseis
Genitive	τῆς προσθέσεως tês prosthéseōs	τοῖν προσθεσέοιν toîn prostheséoin	τῶν προσθέσεων tôn prosthéseōn
Dative	τῇ προσθέσει têi prosthései	τοῖν προσθεσέοιν toîn prostheséoin	ταῖς προσθέσεσῐ / προσθέσεσῐν taîs prosthésesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πρόσθεσῐν tḕn prósthesin	τὼ προσθέσει tṑ prosthései	τᾱ̀ς προσθέσεις tā̀s prosthéseis
Vocative	πρόσθεσῐ prósthesi	προσθέσει prosthései	προσθέσεις prosthéseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• προσθετικός (prosthetikós)

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: πρόσθεση (prósthesi)
• → Late Latin: prothesis (conflated with πρόθεσις (próthesis))
  • → Catalan: pròtesi (learned)
  • → Dutch: prothese, prothesis
  • → English: prothesis
  • → French: prothèse (learned) (see there for further descendants)
  • → German: Prothese
  • → Italian: protesi (learned)
  • → Portuguese: prótese (learned)
  • → Spanish: prótesis (learned)
• → Late Latin: prosthesis
  • → Dutch: prosthesis
  • → English: prosthesis
  • → German: Prosthese

Further reading

• πρόσθεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πρόσθεσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • addition idem, page 11.
  • appliance idem, page 35.
  • application idem, page 36.
  • employment idem, page 269.