Where does “marginalia” come from?

Marginalia comes from New Latin marginalia, derived from Latin marginalis, formed with the suffix -alis from Proto-Indo-European marǵ-.

marginalia (English): Notes in the margin of a document

Definitions

  1. Notes in the margin of a document

Ancestry of “marginalia”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1New Latinmarginālia—
2Latinmarginālismarginal
3Latin-ālis—
4Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

Words derived from “marginalia”

Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālis →Every word from Latin marginālis →