English
prosthesis
Prosthesis comes from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις ‘addition’, and goes back to προστίθημι ‘to add’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπροστίθημιprostíthēmi‘to add’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEπρόσθεσιςprósthesis‘addition’
- Englishearliest quotation 2017prosthesis
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπροστίθημιprostíthēmi‘to add’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEπρόσθεσιςprósthesis‘addition’
- Englishearliest quotation 2017prosthesis
Earliest quotation: 2017, Jenny Marc, Revolutionary gel is five times stronger than steel: “Gong believes the fiber-reinforced hydrogel could be used to…”
A compound of πρός ‘towards’ + τίθημι ‘to place’
Proto-Indo-European *pró ‘forwards, before’
Proto-Indo-European *próti ‘towards’
Ancient Greek πρός ‘towards’
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to put, place’
Proto-Indo-European *dʰé-dʰeh₁-ti
Proto-Hellenic *t(e/i)tʰēmi
Ancient Greek τίθημι ‘to place’
Every English word from Ancient Greek προστίθημι
Today it means
noun An artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek προστίθημι / prosthesis