marginal notes
Origin of marginalia
Modern Latin from neuter plural of Medieval Latin marginalismarginalia
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marginalia
plural noun
Notes in the margin or margins of a book.
Origin of marginalia
New Latin neuter pl. of Medieval Latin marginālis marginal from Latin margō margin- margin ; see margin .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural only)
- Notes in the margin of a document.
- We actually know what the composer was thinking as he wrote the piece because we can read his handwritten marginalia on the manuscript.
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