Abstract

This article intends to investigate the etymology, the historical meanings and the semantic nuances of the terms used now or in the past, in the main languages of Western Europe, to refer to marginal annotations of texts. The study shows that depending on the words under consideration, what stands out is either their hermeneutic dimension (>gloss scholion marginalia apostil annotation notes remarks annotations glosses scholia< are typically added by distinct authors, ancient scholars commenting in its margins a text that has become canonical.