## Meanings
1. The empty space around the edge of a page.
2. The amount by which one result is greater than another.
3. A small extra amount allowed for safety or possible error.
4. The edge or border of something.

## Examples
- She wrote a few notes in the margin of her book.
- Their team won the match by a wide margin.
- Always leave a margin of error when you estimate costs.
- Plants grew thickly along the margins of the lake.

## Derived Forms
- admarginate
- intermargin
- margin-call
- marginable
- marginirostral
- marginless
- marginotomy
- overmargin
- palaeomargin
- paleomargin
- remargin
- retromargin

## Related Forms
- admarginate
- marginal
- marginalia
- marginalization
- marginalize

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: margyn
- Root: marginem
- Root: margin

## Etymology
From Middle English margyn, from Latin marginem (possibly via Old French margin), accusative of margō (“edge, brink, border, margin”). Doublet of marge and margo.

## AI Etymology
Margin comes from Middle English margyn, from Latin marginem (possibly via Old French margin), accusative of margō (“edge, brink, border, margin”). Doublet of marge and margo. In present-day English its meanings include the empty space around the edge of a page, the amount by which one result is greater than another, and a small extra amount allowed for safety or possible error. The historical chain runs through margyn (Middle English), marginem (Latin), and margin (Old French). Related and derived forms include admarginate, marginal, marginalia, and intermargin.

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- Space, Position & Direction
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