// n. A translation of a word, phrase or sentence in another language, especially one which is intended merely as a guide to its approximate meaning or structure. A gloss of a single lexical item is enclosed in inverted commas, as when citing Basque...

Explications in old manuscripts of unintelligible passages in the text or their translation. Depending on the place of the explication, a distinction is made between interlinear glosses, marginal glosses and context glosses. The philological research...

A gloss (from Koine Greek γλώσσα glossa, meaning 'tongue' -- the organ -- as well as 'language') is a note made in the margins or between the lines of a book, in which the meaning of the text in its original language is explained, sometimes in...