miscellanea
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪə/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin miscellanea, neuter plural of miscellaneus, from miscellus (“mixed”), from misceō (“to mix”).
Noun
miscellanea (plural miscellanea)
- A miscellaneous collection of different things; a 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
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Italian
Etymology
Plural of miscellaneo, or borrowed from Latin miscellanea.
Latin
Adjective
miscellānea
- nominative feminine singular of miscellāneus
- nominative neuter plural of miscellāneus
- accusative neuter plural of miscellāneus
- vocative feminine singular of miscellāneus
- nominative neuter plural of miscellāneus
miscellāneā
- ablative feminine singular of miscellāneus
References
- miscellanea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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