annotation

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English

Etymology

From Latin annotātiōnem, accusative singular of annotātiō (“remark, annotation”), from annotātus, perfect passive participle of annotō (“note down, remark”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

annotation (countable and uncountable, plural annotations)

1. a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis
2. a comment added to a text
3. the process of writing such comment or commentary
4. (computing) metadata added to a document or program
5. (genetics) information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases

Translations

critical or explanatory commentary or analysis

• Bulgarian: коментар (bg) (komentar), анотация (anotacija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 註解 (zh), 注解 (zh) (zhùjiě)

• Czech: anotace (cs) f, poznámka (cs) f, vysvětlivka f, komentář (cs) m
• Finnish: huomautus (fi), kommentti (fi)
• French: annotation (fr) f
• Galician: anotación (gl) f
• German: Kommentar (de) m

• Greek: επισημείωση f (episimeíosi), σχολιασμός (el) m (scholiasmós)
• Japanese: 注解 (ja) (ちゅうかい, chūkai)
• Portuguese: comentário (pt) m, anotação (pt) f
• Russian: коммента́рий (ru) m (kommentárij), примеча́ние (ru) n (primečánije), поясне́ние (ru) n (pojasnénije), аннота́ция (ru) f (annotácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: mìneachadh m, notachadh m
• Spanish: anotación f
• Swedish: anteckning (sv)
• Turkish: belirtim (tr), açıklayıcı not, bilgi notu

comment added to a text

• Bulgarian: обяснителна бележка (objasnitelna beležka)
• Czech: anotace (cs) f, poznámka (cs) f, vysvětlivka f, komentář (cs) m
• Finnish: reunahuomautus, huomautus (fi), kommentti (fi)
• French: annotation (fr) f
• Galician: anotación (gl) f
• German: Anmerkung (de) f, Bemerkung (de) f
• Greek: υποσημείωση (el) f (yposimeíosi), σχόλιο (el) f (schólio)
• Korean: 주석 (ko) (juseok)

• Maori: tuhipoka
• Persian: حاشیه‌نویسی‎ (hâšiye-nevisi)
• Portuguese: anotação (pt) f
• Russian: коммента́рий (ru) m (kommentárij), примеча́ние (ru) n (primečánije), поясне́ние (ru) n (pojasnénije), аннота́ция (ru) f (annotácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: mìneachadh m, notachadh m
• Spanish: anotación f
• Turkish: dipnot (tr), hāşiye

process of writing a comment or commentary

• Finnish: kommentointi, huomiointi
• French: annotation (fr) m
• Galician: anotación (gl) f
• German: Kommentierung f
• Greek: σχολιασμός (el) m (scholiasmós)

• Portuguese: anotação (pt) f
• Russian: анноти́рование (ru) n (annotírovanije), комменти́рование (ru) n (kommentírovanije)
• Scottish Gaelic: mìneachadh m, notachadh m
• Spanish: anotación f
• Turkish: not ekleme (tr), şerh ekleme (tr)

metadata added to a document or program

• Finnish: merkintä (fi), kommentti (fi), huomautus (fi)

• French: commentaire (fr) m

information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases

• Finnish: annotaatio
• French: annotation (fr)
• Italian: annotazione (it)

• Portuguese: anotação (pt)
• Spanish: anotación

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} annotation (fr) f

• German: ^{(please verify)} Annotation f, ^{(please verify)} Anmerkung (de) f, ^{(please verify)} Kommentar (de) m, ^{(please verify)} Erläuterung (de) f

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.nɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

annotation f (plural annotations)

1. annotation

Further reading

• “annotation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).