miscellanea

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪə/

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin miscellānea, neuter plural of miscellāneus, from miscellus (mixed), from misceō (I mix).

Noun

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miscellanea (plural miscellanea)

  1. A miscellaneous collection of different things; a miscellany.
    Synonym: miscellany
    • 1897, George Egerton, Symphonies, page 238:
      Bright copper utensils, strings of onions, and gigantic sausages, wine-skins, chillies, and castanets hung with a miscellanea of all kinds from the roof and walls.
    • 1917, Herbert David Croly, editor, The New Republic, volume 9, page 89:
      Long tables of statistics from the Census Reports, extracts from books, and sometimes whole books reappear in the Record, jumbled into a miscellanea that includes a flamboyant discourse on “The Outlook for Prosperity,” []
    • 1989, Thomas G. Pavel, Fictional Worlds, page 70:
      Through a renewed process of selection, miscellanea are cut down to compendia, which, once structurally organized, become texts
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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miscellanea

  1. plural of miscellaneum

Anagrams

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /miʃ.ʃelˈla.ne.a/
  • Rhymes: -anea
  • Hyphenation: mi‧scel‧là‧ne‧a

Etymology 1

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Plural of miscellaneo, or borrowed from Late Latin miscellānea.

Noun

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miscellanea f (plural miscellanee)

  1. miscellany
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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miscellanea

  1. feminine singular of miscellaneo

Further reading

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  • miscellanea in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • miscellanea in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • miscellanea in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • miscellanea in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • miscellanea in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • miscellanea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Latin

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Adjective

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miscellānea

  1. inflection of miscellāneus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

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miscellāneā

  1. ablative feminine singular of miscellāneus

References

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  • miscellanea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin mīscellānea.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mis.t͡sɛl.laˈnɛ.a/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛa
  • Syllabification: mis‧cel‧la‧ne‧a

Noun

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miscellanea nvir pl

  1. (literature) varia, miscellany (collection of diverse texts, thoughts, or notes collected in a publication)
    Synonym: varia
  2. (in magazines) miscellany (section devoted to short notes on various subjects)

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Further reading

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin miscellanea.

Noun

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miscellanea n (uncountable)

  1. miscellanea

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