trivia

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, uncountable) Insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information; froth.
2. (countable, uncountable) A quiz game that involves obscure facts.

trivium

1. (historical) The lower division of the liberal arts in a medieval university; grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
2. The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
3. (form-of, rare, singular) Singular of trivia; anything of little importance.

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Sinonieme

triviality

trifle

trifles

indifferency

bitsy

small beer

trivial

indifference

knowledge wide variety subject

items

minutiae

puzzle

redundance

redundancy

bits of knowledge

details

Vertalings

ninharia

broutilles

trivial

trivialidade

banal

trivialitat

nimietat

redundància

Nichtigkeit

futilitat

Redundanz

Freisetzung von Arbeitskräften

Trivia

Varia

minúcia

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈtɹɪvi.ə/

Etimologie (Engels)

PIE word
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From Latin trivia, plural of trivium (“place where three roads meet”). The term came to be used for any public place, and then for anything commonplace. Furthermore, because the beginners' course at university was called trivium, the word came to be used only for anything basic, simple and trivial.