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noun, feminine

parenthèse

/pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛz/

noun, feminine/pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛz/plural: parenthèses

parenthesis, digression; Either of a pair of round brackets

Borrowed from Late Latin parenthesis (“addition of a letter to a syllable in a word”), from Ancient Greek παρένθεσις (parénthesis).