Definitions for scholium

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scholium scho·li·um

Spelling: [skoh-lee-uh m]

IPA: /ˈskoʊ li əm/

Scholium is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 259 anagrams from letters in scholium (chilmosu).

Definitions for scholium

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 scholium

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

Examples for scholium

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

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

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

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