footnotes

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

notanote- · Latin · mark, note

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