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marginalia

Syllables: mar·gi·na·lia/mɑːd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə/US/mɑɹd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə/

marginalia noun: notes in the margin of a document.

marginalia: notes in the margin of a document
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Noun

marginalia pl (normally plural, singular marginale or marginalium)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) Notes in the margin of a document.
    • We know what the composer was thinking as he wrote the piece because we can read his handwritten marginalia on the manuscript.
    • In so doing, he transforms the Foxian compulsion to distinguish true martyrs from false ones —and thus to differentiate his own saint-making project from medieval hagiography—into a model of textual criticism, directed at detecting and desanctifying the false martyr through the critical medium of...2008, Jennifer Summit, Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England, page 170

marginalia meaning in Urdu and Arabic

marginalia in Urdu

تشریحات, توضیحات

marginalia in Arabic

notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note
مُلَاحَظَة هَامِشِيَّة

Synonyms of marginalia

Forms of marginalia

singularmarginale
singularmarginalium

Origin of marginalia

From New Latin marginālia (cf. margināle (neuter singular (adjective / noun)), from Medieval Latin neuter plural of marginālis (“on the periphery”), from Latin margō (“border, edge”). By surface analysis, marginal + -ia. Compare margin.

Words formed from marginalia

Words that rhyme with marginalia

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Questions about marginalia

What does marginalia mean?
Marginalia means notes in the margin of a document.
What is marginalia in Urdu?
Marginalia in Urdu is تشریحات, توضیحات. See Marginalia meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is marginalia?
Marginalia is a noun.
How do you pronounce marginalia?
Marginalia is pronounced /mɑɹd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə/ (US).

Words near marginalia in the dictionary

  1. marginal utility
  2. marginal wharf
  3. marginal wharfs
  4. marginal wharves
  5. marginale
  6. marginalia
  7. marginalian
  8. marginalisable
  9. marginalisation
  10. marginalisations
  11. marginalise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marginalia (page history and authors); marginalia (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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