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English

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Etymology

PIE word
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  • 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”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/
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Adjective

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.
  6. (mathematics) Self-evident.
  7. Pertaining to the trivium.
  8. (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

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Noun

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. , volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Tho Bennet :
      St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts

References

  1. ^ Wikipedia: Trivium

Further reading

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Pronunciation

Adjective

trivial m or f (masculine and feminine plural trivials)

  1. trivial

Further reading

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin triviālis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

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Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Adjective

trivial m or f (plural triviais)

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German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. trivial (common, easy, obvious)

Declension

Positive forms of trivial
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist trivial sie ist trivial es ist trivial sie sind trivial
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative trivialer triviale triviales triviale
genitive trivialen trivialer trivialen trivialer
dative trivialem trivialer trivialem trivialen
accusative trivialen triviale triviales triviale
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der triviale die triviale das triviale die trivialen
genitive des trivialen der trivialen des trivialen der trivialen
dative dem trivialen der trivialen dem trivialen den trivialen
accusative den trivialen die triviale das triviale die trivialen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein trivialer eine triviale ein triviales (keine) trivialen
genitive eines trivialen einer trivialen eines trivialen (keiner) trivialen
dative einem trivialen einer trivialen einem trivialen (keinen) trivialen
accusative einen trivialen eine triviale ein triviales (keine) trivialen
Comparative forms of trivial
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist trivialer sie ist trivialer es ist trivialer sie sind trivialer
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative trivialerer trivialere trivialeres trivialere
genitive trivialeren trivialerer trivialeren trivialerer
dative trivialerem trivialerer trivialerem trivialeren
accusative trivialeren trivialere trivialeres trivialere
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der trivialere die trivialere das trivialere die trivialeren
genitive des trivialeren der trivialeren des trivialeren der trivialeren
dative dem trivialeren der trivialeren dem trivialeren den trivialeren
accusative den trivialeren die trivialere das trivialere die trivialeren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein trivialerer eine trivialere ein trivialeres (keine) trivialeren
genitive eines trivialeren einer trivialeren eines trivialeren (keiner) trivialeren
dative einem trivialeren einer trivialeren einem trivialeren (keinen) trivialeren
accusative einen trivialeren eine trivialere ein trivialeres (keine) trivialeren
Superlative forms of trivial
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist am trivialsten sie ist am trivialsten es ist am trivialsten sie sind am trivialsten
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative trivialster trivialste trivialstes trivialste
genitive trivialsten trivialster trivialsten trivialster
dative trivialstem trivialster trivialstem trivialsten
accusative trivialsten trivialste trivialstes trivialste
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der trivialste die trivialste das trivialste die trivialsten
genitive des trivialsten der trivialsten des trivialsten der trivialsten
dative dem trivialsten der trivialsten dem trivialsten den trivialsten
accusative den trivialsten die trivialste das trivialste die trivialsten
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein trivialster eine trivialste ein trivialstes (keine) trivialsten
genitive eines trivialsten einer trivialsten eines trivialsten (keiner) trivialsten
dative einem trivialsten einer trivialsten einem trivialsten (keinen) trivialsten
accusative einen trivialsten eine trivialste ein trivialstes (keine) trivialsten

Related terms

Further reading

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

Piedmontese

Adjective

trivial

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /tɾi.viˈaw/ , (faster pronunciation) /tɾiˈvjaw/
 

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

Adjective

trivial m or f (plural triviais)

  1. trivial

Derived terms

Noun

trivial m (plural triviais)

  1. (informal) a simple everyday meal

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French trivial.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

Declension

Declension of trivial
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite trivial trivială triviali triviale
definite trivialul triviala trivialii trivialele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite trivial triviale triviali triviale
definite trivialului trivialei trivialilor trivialelor

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Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

trivial m or f (masculine and feminine plural triviales)

  1. trivial

Derived terms

Further reading

Swedish

Adjective

trivial (comparative trivialare, superlative trivialast)

  1. trivial

Declension

Inflection of trivial
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular trivial trivialare trivialast
Neuter singular trivialt trivialare trivialast
Plural triviala trivialare trivialast
Masculine plural3 triviale trivialare trivialast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 triviale trivialare trivialaste
All triviala trivialare trivialaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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References

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