Definitions for scholia

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scholia scho·li·um

Spelling: [skoh-lee-uh m]

IPA: /ˈskoʊ li əm/

Scholia is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 210 anagrams from letters in scholia (achilos).

Definitions for scholia

noun

1. Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.
2. a note added to illustrate or amplify, as in a mathematical work.

Origin of scholia

1525-35; Medieval Latin Greek schólion, equivalent to schol(ḗ) school¹ + -ion diminutive suffix

Examples for scholia

The same thing is related (in a well-known 'scholium') to have been done by Apolinarius and Theodore of Mopsuestia.

Occasionally a scholium of this kind gives the substance of one of the longer extracts; but as a rule they are distinct.

An illustration, like a funny story, loses its pungency if it requires a scholium.

scholium, a marginal note explanatory of the text of a classic author.