# trivial
## English
### Alternative forms

* triviall (obsolete)

### Etymology

* PIE word
* *tréyes
* 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: /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/, [ˈt͡ʃɹɪv.i.əl]
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

trivial (comparative more trivial, superlative most trivial)
* 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.
* Commonplace, ordinary.
** 1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.
* Concerned with or involving trivia.
* (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
* (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
** (algebra, of an algebraic structure or ideal thereof) Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
* (mathematics) Self-evident.
* Pertaining to the trivium.
* (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

#### Synonyms

* (of little significance): ignorable, negligible, trifling

#### Antonyms

* nontrivial
* important
* significant
* radical
* fundamental

#### Derived terms

* nontrivial
* trivia
* trivial absolute value
* trivial functional dependency
* trivial group
* triviality
* trivially
* trivial name
* trivial solution
* trivial topology

#### Translations

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### Noun

trivial (plural trivials)
* (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. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts

### References

* ↑ Wikipedia: Trivium

### Further reading

* “trivial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “trivial”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* trivial in Britannica Dictionary
* trivial in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
* trivial in Ozdic collocation dictionary
* trivial in WordReference English Collocations

### Anagrams

* vitrail

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [tɾi.βiˈal]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [tɾi.viˈal]

### Adjective

trivial m or f (masculine and feminine plural trivials)
* trivial

### Further reading

* “trivial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin triviālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁi.vjal/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: triviale, triviales

### Adjective

trivial (feminine triviale, masculine plural triviaux, feminine plural triviales)
* trivial (common, easy, obvious)
* ordinary, mundane, commonplace
    Synonyms: banal, commun, ordinaire
    Antonyms: nouveau, singulier, rare
* inelegant, unrefined (especially of a person's language)
    Synonym: inélégant
    Antonym: raffiné
* crass, crude, vulgar, obscene (words, language, behavior, etc.)
    Synonyms: brut, grossier, obscène
    Antonyms: courtois, gentil, poli, subtil

#### Derived terms

* nom trivial

### Further reading

* “trivial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* livrait, vitrail

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾiˈbjal/ [t̪ɾiˈβ̞jɑɫ]
* Rhymes: -al
* Hyphenation: tri‧vial

### Adjective

trivial m or f (plural triviais)
* trivial

#### Derived terms

* trivialidade
* trivialmente

## German
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁiviˈaːl/
* Rhymes: -aːl
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

trivial (strong nominative masculine singular trivialer, comparative trivialer, superlative am trivialsten)
* trivial (common, easy, obvious)

#### Related terms

* trivialisieren
* Trivialität

### Further reading

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

## Piedmontese
### Adjective

trivial
* trivial

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾi.viˈaw/ [tɾi.vɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /tɾiˈvjaw/ [tɾiˈvjaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾiˈvjal/ [tɾiˈvjaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾiˈvjal/ [tɾiˈvjaɫ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /tɾiˈbjal/ [tɾiˈβjaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /tɾiˈvja.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: tri‧vi‧al

### Adjective

trivial m or f (plural triviais)
* trivial

#### Derived terms

* trivialidade
* trivializar
* trivialmente

### Noun

trivial m (plural triviais)
* (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

* IPA: /tri.viˈal/

### Adjective

trivial m or n (feminine singular trivială, masculine plural triviali, feminine and neuter plural triviale)
* common, ordinary
    Synonyms: de rând, comun, obișnuit, ordinar
* obscene, indecent
    Synonyms: obscen, indecent

#### Derived terms

* trivialitate
* trivializa
* netrivial

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾiˈbjal/ [t̪ɾiˈβ̞jal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: tri‧vial

### Adjective

trivial m or f (masculine and feminine plural triviales)
* trivial
    Synonym: insignificante

#### Derived terms

* trivialidad
* trivializar
* trivialmente

### Further reading

* “trivial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Adjective

trivial (comparative trivialare, superlative trivialast)
* trivial

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### Derived terms

* trivialnamn (“common name”)

### References

* trivial in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* trivial in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* trivial in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)