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#87865
11/26/2002 7:45 PM
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For some reason this word seems familiar, but search was negative.From "engines" 1048:
The book offers a nice calculus-based course. It's
hardly the cookbook instruction that too many
engineers got a century ago. It reads like a medieval
text in logic. Propositions are set in italics. They're
followed by corollaries and scholiums.
scholium
n.,
pl. 3li[a 73!8 or 3li[ums 5ML < Gr scholion < scholc: see SCHOOL16
1 a marginal note or commentary, esp. on the text of a Greek or Latin writer
2 a note added or following, meant to illustrate or develop a point in the text, as in mathematics
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#87867
11/26/2002 8:16 PM
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Per AHD scholar and eunuch come from the same IE root
...that's what I was afraid of...
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#87868
11/26/2002 8:40 PM
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And "Eunice" is aname for a girl who's good in bed.
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#87869
11/26/2002 9:18 PM
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Propositions are set in italics. They're followed by corollaries and scholiums. scholia? http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0396would suggest it's Greek all along. So what _is_ the plural?
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#87870
11/29/2002 5:58 AM
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I don't think I've ever seen it in the singular before -- always scholia in the sense of marginal notes in a manuscript, and the person who makes them is a scholiast.
Bingley
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#87871
11/29/2002 11:46 AM
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In reply to:
the person who makes them is a scholiast.
...not to be confused with a sciolist.
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