PROTHESIS

Prothesis

The Prothesis is the place in the sanctuary in which the Liturgy of Preparation takes place in the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches.

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prothesis

Noun

  1. The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in , from (“a whole nother thing”), or Spanish from Latin .

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church


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