parentheme

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parentheme

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Popularized by Stanislaw Lesniewski, perhaps first as German Parenthema; modeled after the relationship of thesis to theme.

noun parenthemes

The expression inside a pair of parentheses. In (2) the links, i.e., the expressions like [omitted] are called parenthemes and consist of an expression enclosed between symmetric parentheses.
Similar: parenthesis

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noun expression — see also parenthesis

Français	parenthème
Deutsch	Parenthema
Italiano	parentema

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@misc{parentheme_2026,
  title = {parentheme},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/parentheme},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}