scholiast
/ˈskəʊ.lɪ.æst/noun
scholiast is a noun meaning “A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-H-O-L-I-A-S-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of scholiast is scholiasts.
What does scholiast mean?
noun
- 1
A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce scholiast?
- UK /ˈskəʊ.lɪ.æst/
Scholiast has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of scholiast
- scholiasts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is scholiast?
Scholiast appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does scholiast come from?
From Late Latin scholiasta, from Byzantine Greek σχολιαστής (skholiastḗs), from σχολιάζειν (skholiázein), from Ancient Greek σχόλιον (skhólion).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).