miscellanea
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin miscellānea, neuter plural of miscellāneus, from miscellus (“mixed”), from misceō (“I mix”).
Noun edit
miscellanea (plural miscellanea)
- A miscellaneous collection of different things; a miscellany.
- Synonym: miscellany
- 1897, George Egerton, Symphonies, page 238:
- Bright copper utensils, strings of onions, and gigantic sausages, wine-skins, chillies, and castanets hung with a miscellanea of all kinds from the roof and walls.
- 1917, Herbert David Croly, editor, The New Republic, volume 9, page 89:
- Long tables of statistics from the Census Reports, extracts from books, and sometimes whole books reappear in the Record, jumbled into a miscellanea that includes a flamboyant discourse on “The Outlook for Prosperity,” […]
- 1989, Thomas G. Pavel, Fictional Worlds, page 70:
- Through a renewed process of selection, miscellanea are cut down to compendia, which, once structurally organized, become texts
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
miscellanea
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Plural of miscellaneo, or borrowed from Late Latin miscellānea.
Noun edit
miscellanea f (plural miscellanee)
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
miscellanea
Further reading edit
- miscellanea in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- miscellanea in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- miscellanea in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- miscellanea in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- miscellanea in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- miscellanea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- miscellānea: (Classical) IPA(key): /mis.kelˈlaː.ne.a/, [mɪs̠kɛlˈlʲäːneä]
- miscellānea: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /miʃ.ʃelˈla.ne.a/, [miʃːelˈläːneä]
- miscellāneā: (Classical) IPA(key): /mis.kelˈlaː.ne.aː/, [mɪs̠kɛlˈlʲäːneäː]
- miscellāneā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /miʃ.ʃelˈla.ne.a/, [miʃːelˈläːneä]
Adjective edit
miscellānea
- inflection of miscellāneus:
Adjective edit
miscellāneā
References edit
- “miscellanea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin mīscellānea.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
miscellanea nvir pl
- (literature) varia, miscellany (collection of diverse texts, thoughts, or notes collected in a publication)
- Synonym: varia
- (in magazines) miscellany (section devoted to short notes on various subjects)
Declension edit
Declension of miscellanea
plural | |
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nominative | miscellanea |
genitive | miscellaneów |
dative | miscellaneom |
accusative | miscellanea |
instrumental | miscellaneami |
locative | miscellaneach |
vocative | miscellanea |
Further reading edit
- miscellanea in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- miscellanea in PWN's encyclopedia
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin miscellanea.
Noun edit
miscellanea n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of miscellanea (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) miscellanea | miscellaneaul |
genitive/dative | (unui) miscellanea | miscellaneaului |
vocative | miscellaneaule |