protheticallyadv.
/prɒˈθɛtɪkli/, /prə(ʊ)ˈθɛtɪkli/, U.S. /prəˈθɛdᵻk(ə)li/, /proʊˈθɛdᵻk(ə)li/ Now rare.
1. In a prothetical manner.
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1838 Fraser's Mag. 17 167 The genuine poet works synthetically, or even in higher guise, prothetically, and never analytically.
1958 Philos. Rev. 67 70 ‘Suppose’, which the medieval logicians had used (though not prothetically), may have been the only word affording a prothetic use in pre-seventeenth century English.
2. Grammar. By prothesis or prefixion.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [adverb] > in manner of prefix or suffix
paragogically1641
prosthetically1875
prothetically1885
prefixally1922
1885 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 16 App. 33 Letters added prothetically.
1896 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Lang. & Lit. 13 49 In some cases a vowel is added prothetically to words whose first consonant has a full vowel.
1957 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 16 125/1 That is to say, the ʾaleph is introduced prothetically to aid in the enunciation of an initial two-consonant cluster.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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