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• triviall (obsolete)

PIE word
*tréyes

• From Latin triviālis (“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”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/, [ˈt͡ʃɹɪv.i.əl]

trivial (comparative more trivial, superlative most trivial)

1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →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”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:

     In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.

2. Commonplace, ordinary.

   • 1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:

     As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.

3. Concerned with or involving trivia.
4. (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
5. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
   1. (algebra, of an algebraic structure or ideal thereof) Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
6. (mathematics) Self-evident.
7. Pertaining to the trivium.
8. (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

• (of little significance): ignorable, negligible, trifling

• nontrivial
• important
• significant
• radical
• fundamental

trivial (plural trivials)

1. (obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

   • 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 King Henry 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 the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts

• “trivial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “trivial”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• trivial in Britannica Dictionary
• trivial in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
• trivial in Ozdic collocation dictionary
• trivial in WordReference English Collocations

• vitrail

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tɾi.βiˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [tɾi.viˈal]

trivial m or f (masculine and feminine plural trivials)

1. trivial

• “trivial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Learned borrowing from Latin triviālis.

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.vjal/
• Homophones: triviale, triviales

trivial (feminine triviale, masculine plural triviaux, feminine plural triviales)

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

• nom trivial

• “trivial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• livrait, vitrail

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

trivial m or f (plural triviais)

1. trivial

Borrowed from French trivial, from Latin triviālis (“common”).

• IPA^(key): /tʁiviˈaːl/
• Rhymes: -aːl

trivial (strong nominative masculine singular trivialer, comparative trivialer, superlative am trivialsten)

1. trivial (common, easy, obvious)

• trivialisieren
• Trivialität

• “trivial” in Duden online
• “trivial” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

trivial

1. trivial

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

trivial m or f (plural triviais)

1. trivial

• trivialidade
• trivializar
• trivialmente

trivial m (plural triviais)

1. (informal) a simple everyday meal

• “trivial” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Borrowed from French trivial.

• IPA^(key): /tri.viˈal/

trivial m or n (feminine singular trivială, masculine plural triviali, feminine and neuter plural triviale)

1. common, ordinary

   Synonyms: de rând, comun, obișnuit, ordinar

2. obscene, indecent

   Synonyms: obscen, indecent

• trivialitate
• trivializa
• netrivial

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

trivial m or f (masculine and feminine plural triviales)

1. trivial

   Synonym: insignificante

• “trivial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

trivial (comparative trivialare, superlative trivialast)

1. trivial

• trivialnamn (“common name”)

• trivial in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• trivial in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• trivial in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)