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prothesis proth·e·sis

Spelling: [proth-uh-sis]

IPA: /ˈprɒθ ə sɪs/

Prothesis is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 642 anagrams from letters in prothesis (ehioprsst).

Definitions for prothesis

noun

1. the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
2. Eastern Church. Also called proskomide. the preparation and preliminary oblation of the Eucharistic elements. the table on which this is done. the part of the sanctuary or bema where this table stands.
3. (often initial capital letter) Greek Antiquity. a representation of a dead person lying in state.

Origin of prothesis

1665-75; Late Latin Greek próthesis a putting before. See pro-², thesis

Examples for prothesis

The two smaller compartments and apses at the sides of the bema were sacristies, the diaconicon and prothesis.

The prothesis and diaconicon have barrel vaults and apses with three sides projecting slightly on the exterior.

prothesis would most likely have been put for it by a Greek.

At the east end a door, unsymmetrically placed, leads to the small chapel which was originally the prothesis.

The place of the prothesis has been taken by a similar door and a small Turkish dome.

It is covered either with a barrel or with a cross-groined vault, and communicates with the prothesis and the diaconicon.

The prothesis and the diaconicon are represented by chapels to north and south of the apse.

The position of the prothesis and diaconicon in particular is identical in the two churches.