personalia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.

Noun

personalia pl (plural only)

1. All the personal belongings, writings and information of an individual.
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 96:

     Evidently doing this job would be as much a matter of probing his memory for links and identifications, as of reading his personalia and getting up the history of Sudan.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

personalia pl (plural only)

1. General personal information (such as would be listed on e.g. a curriculum vitae), such as full name, age, place and date of birth, e-mail address, and telephone number.

Descendants

• → Indonesian: personalia

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch personalia, from Latin persōnālia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pərsoˈnalia̯]
• Hyphenation: pêr‧so‧na‧lia

Noun

personalia (first-person possessive personaliaku, second-person possessive personaliamu, third-person possessive personalianya)

1. personalia
2. personnel department
3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) human resource department

Related terms

• person
• persona
• personal
• personalisasi
• personalitas
• personel

 

Further reading

• “personalia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Adjective

persōnālia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of persōnālis

References

• personalia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Neuter plural of Latin personalis.

Noun

personalia pl (plural only)

1. personal data, biographic information

References

• “personalia” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛr.sɔˈna.lja/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -alja
• Syllabification: per‧so‧na‧lia

Noun

personalia nvir pl

1. (computing) personal data

   Synonyms: dane osobowe, tożsamość

   Hypernym: dane

Declension

Declension of personalia

	plural
nominative	personalia
genitive	personaliów
dative	personaliom
accusative	personalia
instrumental	personaliami
locative	personaliach
vocative	personalia

Further reading

• personalia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• personalia in Polish dictionaries at PWN