Etymology

nota bene

Today it means: Take special note; used to add an aside or warning to a text. Full definition →

Classical Latin notā bene
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The story

  1. Classical Latin · borrowed fromnotā bene“note well”
  2. English todaynota bene

Unadapted borrowing from Classical Latin notā bene (“note well”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.