scholium

English

Alternative forms

• scholion

Etymology

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

Noun

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.