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trivial
English
Alternative forms
- triviall (obsolete)
Etymology
- From Latin trivi?lis (“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar”), from trivium (“place where three roads meet”). Compare trivium, trivia.
- From the distinction between trivium (“the lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric”) and quadrivium (“the higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??.vi.?l/
Adjective
trivial (comparative more trivial, superlative most trivial)
- Ignorable; of little significance or value.
- 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
- "All which details, I have no doubt, Jones, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."
- 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
- Commonplace, ordinary.
- 1842, Thomas De Quincey, Cicero (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine)
- As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.
- 1842, Thomas De Quincey, Cicero (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine)
- Concerned with or involving trivia.
- (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
- (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
- (mathematics) Self-evident.
- Pertaining to the trivium.
- (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
Synonyms
- (of little significance): ignorable, negligible, trifling
Antonyms
- nontrivial
- important
- significant
- radical
- fundamental
Derived terms
- trivia
Translations
Noun
trivial (plural trivials)
- (obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
- c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:
- Tryuyals, & quatryuyals, ?o ?ore now they appayre
That Parrot the Popagay, hath pytye to beholde
How the re?t of good lernyng, is roufled vp & trold
- Tryuyals, & quatryuyals, ?o ?ore now they appayre
- c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:
References
trivial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- vitrail
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /t?i.vi?al/
- (Central) IPA(key): /t?i.bi?al/
Adjective
trivial (masculine and feminine plural trivials)
- trivial
Further reading
- “trivial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?i.vjal/
- Homophones: triviale, triviales
Adjective
trivial (feminine singular triviale, masculine plural triviaux, feminine plural triviales)
- trivial (common, easy, obvious)
- ordinary, mundane
- colloquial (language)
Derived terms
- nom trivial
Further reading
- “trivial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- livrait, vitrail
Galician
Adjective
trivial m or f (plural triviais)
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Derived terms
- trivialidade
- trivialmente
German
Etymology
Borrowed from French trivial, from Latin trivi?lis (“common”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ivi?a?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Adjective
trivial (comparative trivialer, superlative am trivialsten)
- trivial (common, easy, obvious)
Declension
Related terms
- trivialisieren
- Trivialität
Further reading
- “trivial” in Duden online
Piedmontese
Adjective
trivial
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /t?ivi?aw/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /t?i?vja?/
Adjective
trivial m or f (plural triviais, comparable)
- trivial
Derived terms
- trivialidade
- trivializar
- trivialmente
Further reading
- “trivial” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Romanian
Etymology
From French trivial.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tri.vi?al/
Adjective
trivial m or n (feminine singular trivial?, masculine plural triviali, feminine and neuter plural triviale)
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Declension
Derived terms
- trivialitate
- trivializa
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?i?bjal/, [t??i???jal]
- Hyphenation: tri?vial
Adjective
trivial (plural triviales)
- trivial
Derived terms
- trivialidad
- trivializar
- trivialmente
Further reading
- “trivial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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