scholium
- noun
- /ˈskoʊliəm/
- Specialized
:
escolio
- In her analysis, the professor provided a scholium to clarify the themes present in the classical literature.
Examples
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This is a scholium on Iliad 21.196.44.
Academic text (2017) -
33. The placement of the scholium suggests that an ancient author understood this word of Xenophanes as a comment on Homer.
Academic text (2017) -
In the General Scholium, Newton writes that all agree "that the Supreme God exists necessarily," and describes Him as "a Being necessarily existing." 27 Newton clung faithfully to the belief in the scriptural God, who does not constitute a part of the universe.
Academic text (1990) -
Pemberton insisted that gleaning the attributes from creation was necessary to Christianity since God himself, according to Newton's General Scholium, is utterly void of all body and bodily figure, and can therefore neither be seen, nor heard, nor touched; nor ought he to be worshipped under the representation of any corporeal thing.
Academic text (2016) -
The scholar added a scholium to his notes, explaining the ancient text's complex meaning.
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Each scholium in the margins of the book offered valuable insights into the author's intentions.
Synonyms
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A written note in a text that explains a word or idea
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3.8
Notes written to explain and discuss a book or text
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Notes written in the margins of a book
Notes written at the side of old books by scholars to explain the text
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Etymology
Scholium comes from the Greek scholion, meaning a small 'comment', and that comes from scholē, meaning 'leisure', which is the same root as school and scholar. So a scholium is like a scholar's short note in the margin written while studying.