scholium

noun /ˈskəʊlɪəm/

1. A note added to a text as an explanation, criticism or commentary.

   And when I shulde make scholias, notis, and gloses in the margent as himself and his master doith.

2. A note added to a proof as amplification.

   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.

3. A “copy-book maxim”, trite saying.

   The old scholium, that ‘too much familiarity breeds contempt’.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry scholium (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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