scholium means A note added to a text as an explanation, criticism or commentary. It carries an Arena rating of 1474, earned across 6 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, scholium ranks #2,260 of 17,052 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words, #2,422 of 17,052 for Most Elegant Words, #2,471 of 17,052 for Most Exacting Words, #2,532 of 17,052 for Most Incisive Words.
scholium is pronounced /ˈskəʊlɪəm/.
Why “scholium” is a great word
A marginal note or explanatory comment, especially one added to a classical or mathematical text. From New Latin scholium, from Ancient Greek σχόλιον (skhólion, "comment"), a diminutive of σχολή (skholḗ, "lecture, discussion"), first attested in English circa 1535. Unlike a "gloss," which offers a terse translation, or a "corollary," which is a dependent proposition, a scholium is a free-ranging exposition, a reader's whispered aside to posterity. It is the mathematician's footnote clarifying a proof's significance, the medieval scribe's cramped observation in a parchment margin, or the scholar's inked meditation on a line of Homer—the humble record that understanding is always a conversation across time.
Etymology
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek σχόλιον (skhólion, “comment”), from σχολή (skholḗ, “discussion”).
noun
- A note added to a text as an explanation, criticism or commentary.e.g.“And when I shulde make scholias, notis, and gloses in the margent as himself and his master doith.”
- A note added to a proof as amplification.e.g.“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.”
- A “copy-book maxim”, trite saying.e.g.“The old scholium, that ‘too much familiarity breeds contempt’.”
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