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In linguistics, prothesis (/ ˈ p r ɒ θ ɪ s ɪ s /; from post-classical Latin [1] based on Ancient Greek: πρόθεσις próthesis 'placing before'), [2] [3] or less commonly [4] prosthesis (from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις prósthesis 'addition') [5] [6] is the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word without changing the word's meaning or the rest of its structure.
In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [1] [2] enantionymy (enantio-means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemic.
A member of a pair of opposites can generally be determined by the question What is the opposite of X ? The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a ...
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