personalia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.

Noun

1. All the personal belongings, writings and information of an individual.
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, paperback edition edition, Penguin Books, page 96:

     Evidently doing this job would be as much a matter of probing his memory for links and identifications, as of reading his personalia and getting up the history of Sudan.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

personalia pl (plural only)

1. General personal information (such as would be listed on e.g. a curriculum vitae), such as full name, age, place and date of birth, e-mail address, and telephone number.

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) persōnālia

1. nominative neuter plural of persōnālis
2. accusative neuter plural of persōnālis
3. vocative neuter plural of persōnālis

References

• personalia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)