different between scholiast vs scholiastic

English

Etymology

From Late Latin scholiasta, from Byzantine Greek ?????????? (skholiast?s), from ?????????? (skholiázein), from Ancient Greek ??????? (skhólion).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk??.l?.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.
   • 1855, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume III, ch. 14:

     [N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses.

   • 1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book (Abacus 1982 edition), p. 8:

     [L]ike it or not, I was caught up once more in the scholiast’s game, paring popular notions of the ‘queer’ and ‘unearthly’ from notions of the ‘monstrous’.

Derived terms

• scholiastic

English

Etymology

scholiast +? -ic

Adjective

scholiastic (comparative more scholiastic, superlative most scholiastic)

1. of or relating to a scholiast