What does "scholium" mean?

A note added to a text as an explanation, criticism or commentary.

Scholium

Common synonyms include: adversaria, aide-memoire, annotation, apparatus criticus, comment, commentary.

//ˈskəʊlɪəm// noun

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Noun

1
A note added to a text as an explanation, criticism or commentary.
"And when I shulde make scholias, notis, and gloses in the margent as himself and his master doith."
2
a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature) wordnet
3
A note added to a proof as amplification.
"Scholium, is a remark made leisurely, and as it were by the by, on that Proposition, Subject or Discourse before advanced, treated of, or delivered."
4
A “copy-book maxim”, trite saying.
"The old scholium, that ‘too much familiarity breeds contempt’."

"And when I shulde make scholias, notis, and gloses in the margent as himself and his master doith."

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek σχόλιον (skhólion, “comment”), from σχολή (skholḗ, “discussion”).

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