triviata

English

Etymology

From trivia, perhaps with a Latin nominalizing suffix -ata or -ta, or by analogy to Italian traviata (“led astray”).

Noun

triviata (plural triviata)

1. (rare) A collection of trivia; a list of trivial information.
   • 1877, Maurice O'Connor Morris, Triviata, or Crossroad Chronicles of Passages in Irish Hunting History: During the Season of 1875-76, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, page 374:

     I am writing this conclusion to my season's 'Triviata' on the Monday before Puncheston—by the calendar the 24th of April.

   • 1999, C.Y. Gopinath, Travels with the Fish, →ISBN, page 72:

     Reddy, lost in his detailed numbers and triviata, is now dreamily listing the trains that can take you away from Bhusaval to any part of India that you wish.

   • 2001, Marnie Winston-Macauley, A Little Joy, A Little Oy, →ISBN, page xvi:

     This is not a reference book about everything Jewish. […] It is not a joke book, a cookbook, a history book, biographies, or a triviata.