trivia

trivia
Synonyms and related words:
ace, atom, bit, bric-a-brac, chaff, chicken feed, chickenshit, dab, details, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, froth, gimcrackery, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, iota, jot, knickknackery, little, little bit, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, ounce, particle, peanuts, pebble, pinch, pittance, point, rubbish, scruple, small beer, small change, small potatoes, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trash, trifles, trifling amount, triviality, trumpery, whit

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  • Trivia — (singular: trivium ) are unimportant (or trivial ) items, especially of information. In the late 19th century the expression came to apply more to information of the kind useful almost exclusively for answering quiz questions: a perfect trivia… …   Wikipedia

  • Trivia — Trivia …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Trivia — und Varia (deutsch: Wissenswertes und Vermischtes) sind Bezeichnungen für Informationen oder Wissen, das nur in weiterem Sinne mit einer konkreten Thematik zu tun hat. Andere Bezeichnungen für Trivia sind insbesondere Rätselwissen, Bagatellen,… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • trivia — like trivial, has an interesting history. Both words are derived in roundabout ways from the Latin word trivium meaning ‘a place where three roads meet’, and come via the medieval sense of a three part education in grammar, rhetoric, and logic as …   Modern English usage

  • TRIVIA — Diana sic dicta, quod triviis praeesset, unde et 3. facies habere fingebatur. Lucret. l. 1. v. 84. Aulide quo pacto Triviai virginis aram Iphianassai turparunt sanguine foede Ductores Danaûm dilecti, prima virorum. Ovid. Pont. l. 3. El. 2. v. 71 …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • trivia — trivialities, things of little consequence, 1902, popularized as title of a book by L.P. Smith, from L. trivia, pl. of trivium place where three roads meet (see TRIVIAL (Cf. trivial)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Trivia — es la diosa romana de las encrucijadas, identificada con la Hécate griega. Se trata de una divinidad bienhechora, que normalmente hace prosperar las empresas de los hombres, aunque puede condenarlas al fracaso si le place. Es una diosa muy… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Trivĭa — Trivĭa, Beiname der Hekate, s.d …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Trivĭa — (lat.), Beiname der Hekate (s. d.) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Trivia — TRIVIA, æ, ein bekannter Beynamen der Diana, welchen sie entweder daher hat, weil sie von den Griechen in den Städten auf die Kreuzwege gesetzet worden, oder auch, weil sie als der Mond am Himmel ihre dreyfachen Wege, als in die Höhe, Breite und… …   Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon

  • trivia — index detail Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

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