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marginal (adj.)
1570s, "written on the margin," from Medieval Latin
marginalis
, from Latin
margo
"edge, brink, border, margin" (see
margin
(n.)). Sense of "of little effect or importance" first recorded 1887. Related:
Marginally
.
