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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)
- (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.