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单词 parathesis
释义

parathesis

/pəˈraθɪsɪs/
noun
1Originally (chiefly Printing ): a square bracket; the use of square brackets; (also) the word, clause, or phrase inserted within such brackets. In later use more generally: a parenthesis or (treated as plural) a pair of parentheses. Now rare.
2 Grammar. The placing of a word or phrase beside, or in syntactic parallelism with, another; the juxtaposition of two or more grammatically parallel words or phrases (as in our friend the doctor); = apposition. Now rare.

Origin

Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Charles Butler (1560–1647), philologist and apiarist. From ancient Greek παράθεσις juxtaposition, in Hellenistic Greek with reference to words in a sentence, also denoting comparison, mentioning of names, citation of instances, instance from παρα- + θέσις, after παρατιθέναι to place beside. In use as a rhetorical figure after post-classical Latin parathesis (636 in Isidore).

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