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footnote en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/ (UK)

Etymology

From foot + note.

Meanings

  1. A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.
    • consult the footnotes for more details
    • Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics. 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
  2. (broadly) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
    • If we are another footnote to Plato, Plato was himself already a footnote to still earlier footnotes, in an endless chain of footnotes to footnotes 2012, Martin McQuillan, Political Archive of Paul de Man, page 72:
    • a mere footnote in history
    • In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil. 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:
    • Now, with her new book Beyond the Wall, Hoyer is seeking to retrieve the GDR from being written off as a chilling “footnote in German history”, a miserably grey country synonymous with unflinching totalitarianism. 2023 April 28, Frederick Studemann, “Katja Hoyer: we need to hear ‘the whole story’ about East Germany”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC:
  3. A qualification to the import of something.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
f.n. alternative lexicographic
footnotes Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

hatnote · endnote · marginal note · headnote

Deriveds

footnoter

Synonyms

asterisk

Translations (52)

ja 脚註 (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · ko 각주 (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · mi kīwae (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · cy troednodyn (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · da fodnote (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · mk фуснота (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · ko 부차적인 존재 (event of lesser importance) · es nota a pie de página (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · pa ਪਗ ਟਿੱਪਣੀ (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · et allmärkus (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · cmn 註腳 /注脚 (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · gv fo-screeuyn (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · tr dipnot (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · mi kupu āpiti (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · pl przypis (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · ga fonóta (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · sv fotnot (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · mi kupu tāpiri (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · hu lábjegyzet (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · tr haşiye (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · fr note de bas de page (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · ru примеча́ние (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · tl talababa (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · hy ծանոթագրություն (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · eo piednoto (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · hu mellékes megjegyzés (event of lesser importance) · nn fotnote (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · fi alaviite (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · nl voetnoot (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · cmn 註腳 /注脚 (event of lesser importance) · cmn 腳註 /脚注 or 腳注 /脚注 (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · gu પાદટીપ (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · hu lábjegyzet (event of lesser importance) · gv fo-note (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · ja 脚注 (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · it nota a piè di pagina (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · nb fotnote (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · mk подножна белешка (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · fi alaviite (event of lesser importance) · el υποσημείωση (event of lesser importance) · cs poznámka pod čarou (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · id catatan kaki (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · de Fußnote (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · pt nota de rodapé (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · el υποσημείωση (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · es nota (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · de Fußnote (event of lesser importance) · ms nota kaki (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · fr note en bas de page (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · ru сно́ска (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · pl przypis (event of lesser importance) · gd eàrr-nota (comment at the bottom of a printed page)

footnote en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/ (UK)

Etymology

From foot + note.

Meanings

  1. To add footnotes to a text.
    • She does everything she does with a kind of terrifying thoroughness, footnoted and bibliographied, as it were, down to the smallest detail. 1979 April 14, Nancy Walker, “Kiss and Tell”, in Gay Community News, page 13:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
footnoted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
footnoted Tense=Past lexicographic
footnoting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
f.n. alternative lexicographic
footnotes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

reference mark · marginalia

Synonyms

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