Other forms: trivias
Trivia are small facts of no real importance. A trivia quiz, pub trivia, obsessed with trivia.
It is plural in form and usually takes a singular verb in the quiz sense: trivia is her strong subject. The Latin means a place where three roads meet, and from there anything commonplace, since such a crossing was where everybody passed.
1nountriviaSmall facts of no real importance.
“My dad is full of useless trivia about old films and footballers.”
trivia is facts.
Latin trivia is the plural of trivium, a meeting of three roads, hence a public place and then the commonplace.
Proto-Indo-European
*tréyes
Latin
trivium
English, today
trivia
Built from
From Latin trivium. From Latin trivia, plural of trivium (“place where three roads meet”). The term came to be used for any public place, and then for anything commonplace. Furthermore, because the beginners' course at university was called trivium, the word came to be used only for anything basic, simple and trivial.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA