footnote

English

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Noun

footnote (plural footnotes)

1. 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
2. (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related

Translations

comment at the bottom of a printed page

Armenian: ծանոթագրություն (hy) (çanot'agrut'yun) Dutch: voetnoot (nl) m. and f. Esperanto: piednoto (eo) Estonian: allmärkus (et) Finnish: alaviite (fi) French: note en bas de page (fr) f. German: Fußnote (de) f. Hungarian: lábjegyzet (hu)

Irish: fonóta (ga) m. Korean: 각주 (ko) Manx: fo-note (gv) m., fo-screeuyn (gv) m. Polish: przypis (pl) m. Russian: сноска (ru) (snóska) f., примечание (ru) (prim'ečánije) n. Scottish Gaelic: eàrr-nota (gd) f. Spanish: nota (es) f., nota a pie de página (es) f.

event of lesser importance

Finnish: sivuseikka (fi) German: Fußnote (de) f.

Korean: 부차적인 존재 (ko)

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Japanese: 脚注 (ja) (きゃくちゅう, kyakuchū), 脚註 (ja) Portuguese: nota de rodapé f.

Spanish: nota a pie de página Swedish: fotnot (sv) c.

Verb

footnote (third-person singular simple present footnotes, present participle footnoting, simple past and past participle footnoted)

1. To add footnotes to a text; to annotate

See also

• endnote
• headnote