Escolio

English translation: scholium / scholion

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Spanish term or phrase:Escolio
English translation:scholium / scholion
Entered by: Candela Sánchez

12:21 Apr 20, 2018
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics
Spanish term or phrase: Escolio
The term appears in a scholarly article about ancient Greek rhetorics and their translations in the sixteenth century. "Escolio" in Spanish is a side commentary to a text, it derives from the Greek scolios (bent). The article refers several times to these escolios/commentaries made by sixteenth century scholars on older translations.
I cannot find an appropriate term in English for "escolio". The target audience is other scholars, so I might leave it in Greek in italics or use the synonimous "commentary".
Thank you.
Candela Sánchez
Spain
scholium / scholion
Explanation:
Never heard of this, hence my confidence level, but this looks a good bet.

Scholia (singular scholium or scholion, from Ancient Greek: σχόλιον, "comment, interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments, either original or extracted from pre-existing commentaries, which are inserted on the margin of the manuscript of an ancient author, as glosses. One who writes scholia is a scholiast. The earliest attested use of the word dates to the 1st century BC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholia

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Note added at 2 hrs (2018-04-20 14:32:12 GMT)
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Se llama escolios (del latín scholium y éste del griego σχόλιον, ‘comentario’) a las notas o breves comentarios gramaticales, críticos o explicativos, ya sean originales o extractos de comentarios existentes, que se insertan en los márgenes del manuscrito de un autor antiguo como glosa sucinta.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escolio
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Robert Carter
Mexico
Local time: 10:15
Grading comment
Thank you, Robert. Not too keen on using Wikipedia unless there is a text to compare it too but in this case it seems like the appropriate answer.
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3 +5scholium / scholion
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scholium / scholion


Explanation:
Never heard of this, hence my confidence level, but this looks a good bet.

Scholia (singular scholium or scholion, from Ancient Greek: σχόλιον, "comment, interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments, either original or extracted from pre-existing commentaries, which are inserted on the margin of the manuscript of an ancient author, as glosses. One who writes scholia is a scholiast. The earliest attested use of the word dates to the 1st century BC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholia

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Note added at 2 hrs (2018-04-20 14:32:12 GMT)
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Se llama escolios (del latín scholium y éste del griego σχόλιον, ‘comentario’) a las notas o breves comentarios gramaticales, críticos o explicativos, ya sean originales o extractos de comentarios existentes, que se insertan en los márgenes del manuscrito de un autor antiguo como glosa sucinta.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escolio

Robert Carter
Mexico
Local time: 10:15
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you, Robert. Not too keen on using Wikipedia unless there is a text to compare it too but in this case it seems like the appropriate answer.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard
1 min
  -> Thanks, Phil.

agree  Charles Davis: I've seen the plural a number of times, but never the singular; however, in principle this is what it should be. (Taking nothing away from your answer, but actually all you have to do here is go to the Spanish Wikipedia and click on the English link.)
22 mins
  -> Thanks, Charles, yes, in fact, I've just posted it. I jumped the gun a bit and posted it before I noticed there was a Spanish entry. My confidence level is higher now.

agree  Chema Nieto Castañón
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, Chema.

agree  Marie Wilson
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Marie.

agree  JohnMcDove: Yes, probably best option, but I think that "note" or "annotation" could do, as well. https://es.oxforddictionaries.com/translate/spanish-english/... Even "gloss" or "margin note"
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, John, yes, good reference.
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