Dictionary

scholium en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• skōʹlĭəm
• /ˈskəʊlɪəm/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A note added to a text as an explanation, criticism or commentary.
   • 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. 2000, Mary Depew, Dirk Obbink, Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 10, →ISBN:
   • From a scholium on the Iliad (24. 496) we know that Bacchylides spoke of Theano as having borne fifty sons to Antenor. 1904, R. C. Jebb, Bacchylides (Proc. Brit. Acad.), page 9:
   • Almost every word admits a scholium, and a long one too. 1760–2, Goldsm., Cit. W., chapter cxiii:
   • And when I shulde make scholias, notis, and gloses in the margent as himself and his master doith. 1535, Joye, Apol. Tindale (Arb.), page 23:
   • Judy, however, did not choose to receive the laugh as a scholium explanatory of the remark. 1866, G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., chapter ix:
   • Short Scholia are added to almost every chapter, containing various readings, or various translations, selected with much judgment and critical acumen. 1799, Monthly Rev., volume XXX, page 136:
   • Mr. Fox was fain to make soom Scholia’s on it, to reconcile a gloss like that of Orleance, which corrupts the Text. 1660, Heylin, Hist. Quinquart., book ii, page 42:
2. A note added to a proof as amplification.
   • A scholium is a remark applied to some preceding propositions, in order to point out their relative connection, or general utility and application. 1824–5, Barlow, in Encycl. Metrop., volume I, page 314/2:
   • Some…cast all their…metaphysical and…moral learning into the method of mathematicians, and bring every thing relating to those abstracted or those practical sciences under theorems, problems, postulates, scholiums, corollaries, &c. 1741, Watts, Improv. Mind, book i, chapter xiv:
   • Which is evident likewise concerning the Orbits of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, from the Scholium to Prop. 9. 1715, anonymous translator, Gregory’s Astron., volume I, published 1726, page 23:
   • 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. 1704, J. Harris, Lex. Techn., volume I:
3. A “copy-book maxim”, trite saying.
   • The old scholium, that ‘too much familiarity breeds contempt’. 1830, Marryat, King’s Own, chapter xix:

Forms

Translations (17)

la scholium (philology: commentary note added to a text) · ca escoli (philology: commentary note added to a text) · fr scolie (mathematics: amplificatory note added to a proof) · sv skolion (philology: commentary note added to a text) · ro scolie (philology: commentary note added to a text) · vi chú giải (philology: commentary note added to a text) · fr scolie (philology: commentary note added to a text) · de Scholie (philology: commentary note added to a text) · es escolio (philology: commentary note added to a text) · grc σχόλῐον (philology: commentary note added to a text) · pl uwaga (mathematics: amplificatory note added to a proof) · ru схо́лия (philology: commentary note added to a text) · io skolio (mathematics: amplificatory note added to a proof) · io skolio (philology: commentary note added to a text) · ro scolie (mathematics: amplificatory note added to a proof) · el σχόλιο (philology: commentary note added to a text) · pl scholia (philology: commentary note added to a text)