footnote

noun

A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.

(by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.

A qualification to the import of something.

verb

To add footnotes to a text.

Roots

nota-note · Latin · mark, note

Synonyms for footnote

scholiumn marginalian noten annotationn commentaryn memorandumn memon notationn docketn commentv

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Where does footnote come from?

The word footnote breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root -note, from Latin nota (“mark, note”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.