# miscellanea
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪə/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin miscellānea, neuter plural of miscellāneus, from miscellus (“mixed”), from misceō (“I mix”).

#### Noun

miscellanea (plural miscellanea)
* A miscellaneous collection of different things; a miscellany.
    Synonym: 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

##### Related terms

* miscellaneous
* miscellany

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

miscellanea
* plural of miscellaneum

### Anagrams

* mésalliance

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miʃ.ʃelˈla.ne.a/
* Rhymes: -anea
* Hyphenation: mi‧scel‧là‧ne‧a

### Etymology 1

Plural of miscellaneo, or borrowed from Late Latin miscellānea.

#### Noun

miscellanea f (plural miscellanee)
* miscellany

##### Related terms

* miscellaneo

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

miscellanea
* feminine singular of miscellaneo

### Further reading

* miscellanea in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* miscellanea in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
* miscellanea in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
* miscellanea in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
* miscellanea in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
* miscellanea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* mesalliance

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* miscellānea: (Classical Latin) IPA: /mis.kelˈlaː.ne.a/, [mɪs̠kɛlˈlʲäːneä]
* miscellānea: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /miʃ.ʃelˈla.ne.a/, [miʃːelˈläːneä]
* miscellāneā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /mis.kelˈlaː.ne.aː/, [mɪs̠kɛlˈlʲäːneäː]
* miscellāneā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /miʃ.ʃelˈla.ne.a/, [miʃːelˈläːneä]

### Adjective

miscellānea
* inflection of miscellāneus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Adjective

miscellāneā
* ablative feminine singular of miscellāneus

### References

* “miscellanea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mīscellānea.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mist͡sɛllaˈnɛa/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛa
* Syllabification: mis‧cel‧la‧ne‧a

### Noun

miscellanea nvir pl
* (literature) varia, miscellany (collection of diverse texts, thoughts, or notes collected in a publication)
    Synonym: varia
* (in magazines) miscellany (section devoted to short notes on various subjects)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* miscellanea in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* miscellanea in PWN's encyclopedia

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin miscellanea.

### Noun

miscellanea n (uncountable)
* miscellanea