Scholium

//ˈskəʊlɪəm// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature) wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    A “copy-book maxim”, trite saying.

    "The old scholium, that ‘too much familiarity breeds contempt’."

Etymology

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

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