Word Origin Summary

Παρένθεσις is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• parenthèse

  French · derived from

• parèntesi

  Catalan · derived from

• parenthesis

  English · derived from

• parentes

  Danish · derived from

• parenthese

  Dutch · derived from

• پرانتز

  FAS · borrowed from

• paranteză

  Romanian · borrowed from

• παρένθεση

  Greek · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root