Also tosafoth. [Heb. tōsāphōth, pl. of tōsāphāh addition, f. yāsaph to add.] Critical and explanatory notes on the Talmud. Hence Tosaphist (-fist), a writer of tosaphoth.
1866. Jrnl. Sacr. Lit., IX. July, 359. Here we may distinguish … Tōsāphōth, additions or appendices to the Talmūd.
1887. H. Adler, in Papers Anglo-Jewish Hist. Exhib., 272. The marvellously exhaustive list of Tosafists (authors of comments on the Talmud) contained in Zunz’s ‘Zur Geschichte und Literatur.’
