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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin parenthesis (“addition of a letter to a syllable in a word”), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek παρένθεσις (parénthesis).
Pronunciation
Noun
parenthesis (countable and uncountable, plural parentheses)
- A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
- Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
1824, John Johnson, Typographia, Or the Printer's Instructor, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green:There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative […] it is a slender stroke leaning forward, betokening a little short rest, without any perfectness yet of sentence.
1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:
2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255:[T]he present research also made an effort to approach a greater accuracy in presenting the original sources of borrowed words. This was achieved by presenting etymons from Hindustani in the Devanagari script followed by a transliteration in the Roman alphabet in parentheses.
- (rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 113:Mr. Trevanion was one of those talkers, who are too much engrossed with their own subject matter to have much attention to bestow elsewhere; with them silence is attention. Ethel's wandering eye, and lip, tremulous with its effort to speak, would never have attracted his notice. To his utter astonishment, she interrupted a parenthesis, as brilliant as the rocket which it depicted, by saying,—
"Mr. Trevanion, I do not know what you will think of my boldness, but I must speak to you."
2009, Up in the Air:Ryan Bingham (George Clooney): I thought I was a part of your life.
Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga): I thought we signed up for the same thing […] I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. You are an escape. You're a break from our normal lives. You're a parenthesis.
Ryan Bingham (George Clooney): I'm a parenthesis?
- (mathematics, logic) Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.
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a clause, phrase or word inserted into a passage which is already grammatically complete
(Rhetoric) a digression; the use of such digressions
either of a pair of brackets ( )
- Albanian: kllapë (sq) f
- Arabic: قَوْس (ar) m (qaws) (plural: أَقْوَاس m pl (ʔaqwās), قَوْسَانِ m du (qawsāni) (two)
- Armenian: փակագիծ (hy) (pʻakagic)
- Azerbaijani: mötərizə (az)
- Bashkir: йәйә (yəyə)
- Belarusian: ду́жка f (dúžka), ско́бка f (skóbka)
- Bulgarian: ско́ба (bg) f (skóba), ско́бка f (skóbka)
- Burmese: လက်သည်းကွင်း (my) (laksany:kwang:)
- Catalan: parèntesi (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 圓括號/圆括号 (zh) (yuánkuòhào), 插入語/插入语 (zh) (chārùyǔ), 括弧 (zh) (kuòhú)
- Cornish: krommvagh f
- Czech: závorka (cs) f
- Danish: parentes (da) c
- Dutch: haakje (nl) n
- Esperanto: parentezo (eo)
- Estonian: kiil (et), kiillause
- Finnish: sulkumerkki (fi), sulje (fi), sulku (fi)
- French: parenthèse (fr) f
- Galician: paréntese (gl) f
- Georgian: ფრჩხილი (ka) (prčxili), მრგვალი ფრჩხილები (mrgvali prčxilebi)
- German: runde Klammer f, Klammer (de) f, Parenthese (de) f
- Greek: παρένθεση (el) f (parénthesi)
- Hebrew: סוֹגֵר m (sogér)
- Hindi: कोष्ठक (hi) (koṣṭhak)
- Hungarian: zárójel (hu)
- Icelandic: svigi (is) m
- Irish: lúibín (ga) m
- Italian: parentesi (it) f
- Japanese: 括弧 (ja) (かっこ, kakko)
- Kazakh: жақша (jaqşa)
- Khmer: វង់ក្រចក (km) (vŭəng krɑcɑɑk)
- Korean: 괄호(括弧) (ko) (gwalho)
- Kumyk: жая (jaya)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: kevan (ku)
- Kyrgyz: кашаа (kaşaa)
- Lao: ນະຂາລິຂິດ (na khā li khit), ວົງເລັບ (wong lep)
- Latvian: iekavas f pl, apaļās iekavas f pl
- Lithuanian: skliaustai m pl, skliausteliai m pl
- Luxembourgish: Klamer f
- Macedonian: заграда f (zagrada)
- Malay: tanda kurung, kurung (ms)
- Malayalam: വലയം (ml) (valayaṁ)
- Maori: taiepa (when preceded by singular 'te'), taiepa pewa
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хаалт (mn) (xaalt)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: parentes m
- Pashto: قوس (ps) m (qaws)
- Persian: پَرانتِز (fa) (parântez), قُلّاب (fa) (qollâb), قَوس (fa) (qaws) (Dari)
- Polish: nawias (pl) m
- Portuguese: parêntese (pt) m
- Romanian: paranteză (ro) f
- Russian: ско́бка (ru) f (skóbka), кру́глая ско́бка f (krúglaja skóbka)
- Sanskrit: आवरण (sa) n (āvaraṇa), कोष्ठक (sa) m (koṣṭhaka)
- Scottish Gaelic: camag f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: за̑града f
- Roman: zȃgrada (sh) f
- Slovak: zátvorka f
- Slovene: oklepáj (sl) m
- Spanish: paréntesis (es) m
- Swedish: parentes (sv) c
- Tajik: қавс (qavs), қавсайн (qavsayn) (two)
- Tatar: җәя (tt) (cäya)
- Thai: นขลิขิต (th) (ná-kà-lí-kìt), ความแทรก (kwaam-sɛ̂ɛk)
- Turkish: parantez (tr), ayraç (tr)
- Turkmen: ýaý
- Ukrainian: ду́жка f (dúžka)
- Urdu: قَوس (qaus)
- Uyghur: تىرناق (tirnaq)
- Uzbek: qavs (uz), skobka
- Vietnamese: ngoặc (vi), ngoặc đơn (vi)
- Welsh: cromfach f
- Yiddish: קלאַמער (klamer)
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(mathematics, logic) brackets used to clarify expressions by grouping terms affected by a common operator
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