parentheme

English

Etymology

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

Noun

parentheme (plural parenthemes)

  1. (arithmetic, linguistics) The expression inside a pair of parentheses.
    • 1973, V.Frederick Rickey, AXIOMATIC INSCRIPTIONAL SYNTAX PART II‎[1]:
      In (2) the links, i.e., the expressions like
      [omitted]
      are called parenthemes and consist of an expression enclosed between symmetric parentheses.
    Synonym: parenthesis

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