Prothesis vs Prosiopesis - What's the difference?
prothesis | prosiopesis | Antonyms |
(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
(grammar) Ellipsis of the beginning of a grammatical construction, common in informal speech and spontaneous written electronic communication, frequently occurring in stock phrases and interjections.
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Prothesis is an antonym of prosiopesis.
As nouns the difference between prothesis and prosiopesis
is that 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 while prosiopesis is (grammar) ellipsis of the beginning of a grammatical construction, common in informal speech and spontaneous written electronic communication, frequently occurring in stock phrases and interjections.prothesis
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. However, often confused for a descendant of the Ancient Greek word ), which is instead the source of a different term – see , below.Noun
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* English nouns with irregular pluralsprosiopesis
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- Traditional rhetoric was much concerned with the phenomenon of elision, because of the implications for constructing well-formed metrical lines, which would scan well. In rhetorical terminology, an elision in word-initial position was known as aphaeresis'' or ''prosiopesis'' , in word-medial position as ''syncope'', and in word-final position as ''apocope . A similar classification was made for the opposite of elision, intrusion.
- The students of English were making good progress in getting to grips with the intricacies of informal constructions, peppering their conversations with proverbial idioms and substituting stock phrases like ''Good morning!'' and ''Thank you.'' with prosiopeses like ''Morning!'' and ''?Kyou.
