1540s, "words, clauses, etc. inserted into a sentence," from Middle French parenthèse (15c.), from Late Latin parenthesis "addition of a letter to a syllable in a word," from Greek parenthesis, literally "a putting in beside," from parentithenai "put in beside," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + en- "in" + tithenai "put, place" (see theme). Sense extension by 1715 from the inserted words to the curved brackets that indicate the words inserted.
A wooden parenthesis; the pillory. An iron parenthesis; a prison. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]
例文
1. In parenthesis ，I 'd say that there were two aspects to writing you must never lose sight of.
を1つ挿入して、書くことについて、あなたは決して無視できない2つの点があると思います。
2.I should like to mention another point here by way of parenthesis .
ここにもう一つ付け加えたいと思います。
3.I should like to mention this by way of parenthesis .
この質問について付け加えたいと思います。
4.Items encapsulated in parenthesis are evaluated first and have the highest precedence.
括弧に含まれる項目に最初に値を割り当て、最高の優先度を持つ。
5.A common syntax error is to omit a parenthesis .