Talk:parentheme

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This word may have been coined by a mathematician named Leśniewski, and possibly not originally in English. But google scholar shows the term is also used in linguistics, and possibly medicine too. It's unlikely they all borrowed it from mathematics, so i left the etymology open, saying that it's a natural word formation that someone well educated in Greek would understand. i cannot get to the Google Scholar references, although i might be able to do it through a library near here (not one i can walk to though). Google Books provides additional cites that are a bit more accessible, and it's a rare google search term as well. One caution: the medical uses might be mis-scans of parent + heme, or even of parentheses (particularly those that appear where a plural word would be expected, e.g. in parentheme). Best regards, —Soap— 22:03, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

The Google Scholar references are much better at establishing both the meaning and the use of this word than the few mentions in Google Books, though it's worth noting in both cases that they all seem to ultimately trace back to a paper by Leśniewski, perhaps in German. Nonetheless the term has been used and continues to be used by other scholars in their own work, not just copies of Leśniewski's papers. —Soap— 11:45, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

here is a linguistics paper which uses parentheme in its abstract. as above, i cannot get to the full text, but it's clearly not a mistake for parent theme or some such thing. What I can't see is whether this is an exact synonym of the math definition (the expression inside a pair of parentheses) or a narrower sense confined to linguistics or even to just Hebrew linguistics. —Soap— 18:02, 23 October 2024 (UTC)