Meanings
singular paralipomenon
- pluralplural normallySupplementary literary material.
You are cold, while you yourself fan flames. By all means wrap yourself in your despotic furs, there is no one to whom they are more appropriate, cruel goddess of love and of beauty!—After a while I add a few verses from Goethe, which I recently found in his paralipomena to Faust.
1921 [1870], Fernanda Savage, transl., Venus in Furs, translation of Venus im Pelz by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Origin
- Ancient Greekπαραλειπόμενα
- Englishparalipomena
Borrowed from Ancient Greek παραλειπόμενα (paraleipómena, literally “things omitted”), from παραλείπω (paraleípō, “to leave out”), from παρά (pará) + λείπω (leípō).
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