Dictionary

marginalia en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /mɑːd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /mɑɹd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə/ (General-American)

Etymology

From New Latin marginālia (cf. margināle (neuter singular (adjective / noun)), from Medieval Latin neuter plural of marginālis (“on the periphery”), from Latin margō (“border, edge”). By surface analysis, marginal + -ia. Compare margin.

Meanings

1. (plural, plural-normally) Notes in the margin of a document.
   • We know what the composer was thinking as he wrote the piece because we can read his handwritten marginalia on the manuscript.
   • In so doing, he transforms the Foxian compulsion to distinguish true martyrs from false ones —and thus to differentiate his own saint-making project from medieval hagiography—into a model of textual criticism, directed at detecting and desanctifying the false martyr through the critical medium of marginalia. 2008, Jennifer Summit, Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England, page 170:

Forms

Deriveds

marginalian

Synonyms

gloss · apostil · marginal note

Translations (6)

ar مُلَاحَظَة هَامِشِيَّة (notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note) · bg забележка в полето (notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note) · de Randnote (notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note) · pt nota à margem (notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note) · pl marginalia (notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note) · pt notas à margem (notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note)