paréntesis
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin parenthesis (“addition of a letter to a syllable in a word”), from Ancient Greek παρένθεσις (parénthesis).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]paréntesis m (plural paréntesis)
- parenthesis
- break, gap (period of temporal interruption)
- Synonyms: hiato, interrupción
Derived terms
[edit]- parentético
- paréntesis angular
- paréntesis redondos or curvos or comunes or normales: ( )
- paréntesis cuadrados or rectangulares or rectos (= corchetes): [ ]
- paréntesis agudos or triangulares or en ángulo (= ángulos): 〈 〉 / < >
Further reading
[edit]- “paréntesis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/entesis
- Rhymes:Spanish/entesis/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Punctuation marks