scholium

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

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scholium (plural scholiums or scholia)

  1. A note added to a text as an explanation, criticism or commentary.
    • 2000, Mary Depew, Dirk Obbink, Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 10, →ISBN:
      Sluiter examines a tension inherent in such scholarly works as lexica, scholia, epitomai, and commentaries: although the very titles of these works claim no more than secondary status, their authors engage nonetheless in a rhetoric of self-legitimation.
  2. (mathematics) A note added to a proof as amplification.