triviata
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From trivia, perhaps with a Latin nominalizing suffix -ata or -ta, or by analogy to Italian traviata (“led astray”).
Noun
[edit]triviata (plural triviata)
- (rare) A collection of trivia; a list of trivial information.
- 1877, Maurice O'Connor Morris, Triviata, or Crossroad Chronicles of Passages in Irish Hunting History: During the Season of 1875-76, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, page 374:
- I am writing this conclusion to my season's 'Triviata' on the Monday before Puncheston—by the calendar the 24th of April.
- 1999, C.Y. Gopinath, Travels with the Fish, →ISBN, page 72:
- Reddy, lost in his detailed numbers and triviata, is now dreamily listing the trains that can take you away from Bhusaval to any part of India that you wish.
- 2001, Marnie Winston-Macauley, A Little Joy, A Little Oy, →ISBN, page xvi:
- This is not a reference book about everything Jewish. […] It is not a joke book, a cookbook, a history book, biographies, or a triviata.