Alter vs Prothesis - What's the difference?
alter | prothesis |
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
(linguistics) The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in (nother), from (other) (“a whole nother thing”), or Spanish esfera from Latin .
a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church
As an adjective alter
is .As a noun prothesis is
(linguistics) the prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in (nother), from (other) (“a whole nother thing”), or spanish esfera from latin or prothesis can be a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the divine liturgy of the eastern orthodox church.alter
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* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)
