Other forms: annotated, annotating, annotates
To annotate is to add explanatory notes to a text. Annotate the manuscript, an annotated edition, annotate as you read.
Annotating while reading is one of the few study methods that reliably works, because it forces you to say what a passage means rather than simply pass over it. An annotated edition carries an editor's notes. The Latin means to note down.
1verbannotateTo add explanatory notes to a text.
“Students annotate the poem, writing notes in the margins as they read.”
annotate is a noting.
Latin annotare means to note down — ad plus notare, to mark, from nota, a mark.
Latin
annotātus
English, today
annotate
From Latin annotātus, past participle of annotāre (an alternative form of adnotāre), from ad- + notāre. by surface analysis, an- + note + -ate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA