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English

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Etymology

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PIE word
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  • FromLatintriviālis(“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar”), fromtrivium(“place where three roads meet”). Comparetrivium,trivia.
  • From the distinction betweentrivium(“the lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric”) andquadrivium(“the higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music”).[1]

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trivial (comparativemoretrivial,superlativemosttrivial)

EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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  1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
    • 1847 January –1848 July,William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, inVanity Fair […], London:Bradbury and Evans […], published1848,→OCLC:
      "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."
    • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, inJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development,→DOI, page11:
      In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterlytrivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.
  2. Commonplace,ordinary.
    • 1842,Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, inBlackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
      As a scholar, meantime, he wastrivial, and incapable of labour.
  3. Concerned with or involvingtrivia.
  4. (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of aspecies; specific as opposed to generic.
  5. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
    1. (algebra, of analgebraic structure orideal thereof) Containing only oneelement; having anunderlying set which is asingleton.
  6. (mathematics)Self-evident.
  7. Pertaining to thetrivium.
  8. (philosophy)Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

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Translations

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of little significance or value
common, ordinary
concerned with or involving trivia
(biology) relating to, or designating a species
(mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
(mathematics) self-evident
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Noun

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trivial (pluraltrivials)

  1. (obsolete) Any of thethreeliberal arts forming thetrivium.
    • c.1521,John Skelton,Speke Parott:
      Tryuyals, & quatryuyals, ſo ſore now they appayre
      That Parrot the Popagay, hath pytye to beholde
      How the reſt of good lernyng, is roufled vp & trold
    • 1691, [Anthony Wood],Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of KingHenry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:
      St. Edmund was bred in this University in theTrivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts

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  1. ^Wikipedia: Trivium
  2. ^Hurd, Seth P. (1847), “Trivial”, in “False Pronunciation”, inA Grammatical Corrector; or, A Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech‎[1],Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co,→OCLC,page90.

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Adjective

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trivial m orf (masculine and feminine pluraltrivials)

  1. trivial

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French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing fromLatintriviālis.

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trivial (femininetriviale,masculine pluraltriviaux,feminine pluraltriviales)

  1. trivial(common, easy, obvious)
  2. ordinary,mundane,commonplace
    Synonyms:banal,commun,ordinaire
    Antonyms:nouveau,singulier,rare
  3. inelegant,unrefined(especially of a person's language)
    Synonym:inélégant
    Antonym:raffiné
  4. crass,crude,vulgar,obscene(words, language, behavior, etc.)
    Synonyms:brut,grossier,obscène
    Antonyms:courtois,gentil,poli,subtil

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Galician

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tɾiˈbjal/[t̪ɾiˈβ̞jɑɫ]
  • Rhymes:-al
  • Hyphenation:tri‧vial

Adjective

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trivial m orf (pluraltriviais)

  1. trivial

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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchtrivial, fromLatintriviālis(“common”).

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trivial (strong nominative masculine singulartrivialer,comparativetrivialer,superlativeamtrivialsten)

  1. trivial (common, easy, obvious)

Declension

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Positive forms oftrivial
number & gendersingularplural
masculinefeminineneuter
predicativeeristtrivialsieisttrivialesisttrivialsiesindtrivial
strong declension
(without article)		nominativetrivialertrivialetrivialestriviale
genitivetrivialentrivialertrivialentrivialer
dativetrivialemtrivialertrivialemtrivialen
accusativetrivialentrivialetrivialestriviale
weak declension
(with definite article)		nominativedertrivialedietrivialedastrivialedietrivialen
genitivedestrivialendertrivialendestrivialendertrivialen
dativedemtrivialendertrivialendemtrivialendentrivialen
accusativedentrivialendietrivialedastrivialedietrivialen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		nominativeeintrivialereinetrivialeeintriviales(keine)trivialen
genitiveeinestrivialeneinertrivialeneinestrivialen(keiner)trivialen
dativeeinemtrivialeneinertrivialeneinemtrivialen(keinen)trivialen
accusativeeinentrivialeneinetrivialeeintriviales(keine)trivialen
Comparative forms oftrivial
number & gendersingularplural
masculinefeminineneuter
predicativeeristtrivialersieisttrivialeresisttrivialersiesindtrivialer
strong declension
(without article)		nominativetrivialerertrivialeretrivialerestrivialere
genitivetrivialerentrivialerertrivialerentrivialerer
dativetrivialeremtrivialerertrivialeremtrivialeren
accusativetrivialerentrivialeretrivialerestrivialere
weak declension
(with definite article)		nominativedertrivialeredietrivialeredastrivialeredietrivialeren
genitivedestrivialerendertrivialerendestrivialerendertrivialeren
dativedemtrivialerendertrivialerendemtrivialerendentrivialeren
accusativedentrivialerendietrivialeredastrivialeredietrivialeren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		nominativeeintrivialerereinetrivialereeintrivialeres(keine)trivialeren
genitiveeinestrivialereneinertrivialereneinestrivialeren(keiner)trivialeren
dativeeinemtrivialereneinertrivialereneinemtrivialeren(keinen)trivialeren
accusativeeinentrivialereneinetrivialereeintrivialeres(keine)trivialeren
Superlative forms oftrivial
number & gendersingularplural
masculinefeminineneuter
predicativeeristamtrivialstensieistamtrivialstenesistamtrivialstensiesindamtrivialsten
strong declension
(without article)		nominativetrivialstertrivialstetrivialstestrivialste
genitivetrivialstentrivialstertrivialstentrivialster
dativetrivialstemtrivialstertrivialstemtrivialsten
accusativetrivialstentrivialstetrivialstestrivialste
weak declension
(with definite article)		nominativedertrivialstedietrivialstedastrivialstedietrivialsten
genitivedestrivialstendertrivialstendestrivialstendertrivialsten
dativedemtrivialstendertrivialstendemtrivialstendentrivialsten
accusativedentrivialstendietrivialstedastrivialstedietrivialsten
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		nominativeeintrivialstereinetrivialsteeintrivialstes(keine)trivialsten
genitiveeinestrivialsteneinertrivialsteneinestrivialsten(keiner)trivialsten
dativeeinemtrivialsteneinertrivialsteneinemtrivialsten(keinen)trivialsten
accusativeeinentrivialsteneinetrivialsteeintrivialstes(keine)trivialsten

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Further reading

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  • “trivial” inDuden online
  • “trivial” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Piedmontese

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Adjective

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trivial

  1. trivial

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil)IPA(key): /tɾi.viˈaw/[tɾi.vɪˈaʊ̯],(faster pronunciation)/tɾiˈvjaw/[tɾiˈvjaʊ̯]
 

  • Rhymes:(Portugal)-al,(Brazil)-aw
  • Hyphenation:tri‧vi‧al

Adjective

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trivial m orf (pluraltriviais)

  1. trivial

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Noun

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trivial m (pluraltriviais)

  1. (informal) a simple everydaymeal

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchtrivial.

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trivial m orn (feminine singulartrivială,masculine pluraltriviali,feminine/neuter pluraltriviale)

  1. common,ordinary
    Synonyms:de rând,comun,obișnuit,ordinar
  2. obscene,indecent
    Synonyms:obscen,indecent

Declension

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Declension oftrivial
singularplural
masculineneuterfemininemasculineneuterfeminine
nominative-
accusative		indefinitetrivialtrivialătrivialitriviale
definitetrivialultrivialatrivialiitrivialele
genitive-
dative		indefinitetrivialtrivialetrivialitriviale
definitetrivialuluitrivialeitrivialilortrivialelor

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tɾiˈbjal/[t̪ɾiˈβ̞jal]
  • Rhymes:-al
  • Syllabification:tri‧vial

Adjective

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trivial m orf (masculine and feminine pluraltriviales)

  1. trivial
    Synonym:insignificante

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Swedish

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Adjective

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trivial (comparativetrivialare,superlativetrivialast)

  1. trivial

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Inflection oftrivial
Indefinitepositivecomparativesuperlative1
common singulartrivialtrivialaretrivialast
neuter singulartrivialttrivialaretrivialast
pluraltrivialatrivialaretrivialast
masculine plural2trivialetrivialaretrivialast
Definitepositivecomparativesuperlative
masculine singular3trivialetrivialaretrivialaste
alltrivialatrivialaretrivialaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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