Word Origin Summary

Parenthesis is attested in Latin. 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 · borrowed from

• parèntesi

  Catalan · derived from

• parenthesis

  English · borrowed from

• parenthese

  Dutch · derived from

• پرانتز

  FAS · borrowed from

• paranteză

  Romanian · borrowed from

• parenthetical

  English · derived from

• parentezo

  Esperanto · 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