prosthesis的词源

英文词源

prosthesis (n.)

1550s, "addition of a letter or syllable to a word," from Late Latin, from Greek prosthesis "addition," from prostithenai "add to," from pros "to" + tithenai "to put, place" (see theme). Meaning "artificial body part" is first recorded c. 1900, from earlier use to describe the medical art of making artificial limbs (1706), on notion of "that which is added to" the injured body.

中文词源

prosthesis：假体，假肢

来自希腊语prosthetitas,加上去的，来自pros,向前，朝向，来自pro的扩大形式，-thet,放置，词源同do,thesis,theme.后引申词义假体，假肢。

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