scholiast
Etymology

From Late Latin scholiasta, from gkm σχολιαστής, from σχολιάζειν, from Ancient Greek σχόλιον.

Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈskəʊ.lɪ.æst/
Noun

scholiast (plural scholiasts)

  1. A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.
    • 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 14, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC ↗:
      [N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses.



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