trivial

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• /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/
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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”).

140 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تافِه (tāfih) — of little significance or value
• Belarusian: нязна́чны (njaznáčny) — of little significance or value
• Belarusian: мізэ́рны (mizérny) — of little significance or value
• Belarusian: трывія́льны (tryvijálʹny) — of little significance or value
• Bulgarian: незначи́телен (neznačítelen) — of little significance or value
• Bulgarian: нищо́жен (ništóžen) — of little significance or value
• Catalan: trivial — of little significance or value
• Chinese Mandarin: 瑣碎 /琐碎 (suǒsuì) — of little significance or value
• Chinese Mandarin: 瑣細 /琐细 (suǒxì) — of little significance or value
• Czech: bezvýznamný — of little significance or value
• Esperanto: bagatela — of little significance or value
• Estonian: tühine — of little significance or value
• Finnish: mitätön — of little significance or value
• Finnish: triviaali — of little significance or value
• French: trivial — of little significance or value
• French: anodin — of little significance or value
• Galician: trivial — of little significance or value
• Georgian: უმნიშვნელო (umnišvnelo) — of little significance or value
• Georgian: ტრივიალური (ṭrivialuri) — of little significance or value
• German: unbedeutend — of little significance or value
• German: bedeutungslos — of little significance or value
• German: belanglos — of little significance or value
• German: geringfügig — of little significance or value
• Greek: ασήμαντος (asímantos) — of little significance or value
• Greek: τιποτένιος (tipoténios) — of little significance or value
• Greek: μηδαμινός (midaminós) — of little significance or value
• Hindi: नगण्य (nagaṇya) — of little significance or value
• Hindi: तुच्छ (tucch) — of little significance or value
• Hungarian: jelentéktelen — of little significance or value
• Italian: insignificante — of little significance or value
• Italian: trascurabile — of little significance or value
• Japanese: つまらない (tsumaranai) — of little significance or value
• Japanese: 些細な (sasai na) — of little significance or value
• Japanese: 末梢的な (masshoteki na) — of little significance or value
• Japanese: 枝葉の (edaha no) — of little significance or value
• Korean: 사소하다 (sasohada) — of little significance or value
• Latin: levis — of little significance or value
• Latin: sublestus — of little significance or value
• Malayalam: നിസ്സാര (nissāra) — of little significance or value
• Māori: meroiti — of little significance or value
• Māori: kūrapa — of little significance or value
• Māori: tātakimōri — of little significance or value
• Māori: paraurehe — of little significance or value
• Polish: trywialny — of little significance or value
• Polish: błahy — of little significance or value
• Polish: bagatelny — of little significance or value
• Portuguese: trivial — of little significance or value
• Russian: незначи́тельный (neznačítelʹnyj) — of little significance or value
• Russian: ме́лкий (mélkij) — of little significance or value
• Russian: ничто́жный (ničtóžnyj) — of little significance or value
• Russian: тривиа́льный (triviálʹnyj) — of little significance or value
• Scottish Gaelic: suarach — of little significance or value
• Serbo-Croatian: три̏вија̄лан — of little significance or value
• Serbo-Croatian: trȉvijālan — of little significance or value
• Spanish: trivial — of little significance or value
• Swedish: trivial — of little significance or value
• Swedish: enkel — of little significance or value
• Tamil: உப்பு பெறாத (uppu peṟāta) — of little significance or value
• Turkish: ıvır zıvır — of little significance or value
• Ottoman Turkish: یسیر (yesir) — of little significance or value
• Ukrainian: незначни́й (neznačnýj) — of little significance or value
• Ukrainian: мізе́рний (mizérnyj) — of little significance or value
• Ukrainian: тривіа́льний (tryviálʹnyj) — of little significance or value
• Urdu: اَدْنیٰ (adnā) — of little significance or value
• Bulgarian: обикнове́н (obiknovén) — common, ordinary
• Bulgarian: всекидне́вен (vsekidnéven) — common, ordinary
• Catalan: trivial — common, ordinary
• Chinese Mandarin: 平凡 (píngfán) — common, ordinary
• Chinese Mandarin: 普通 (pǔtōng) — common, ordinary
• Czech: triviální — common, ordinary
• Esperanto: banala — common, ordinary
• Estonian: argine — common, ordinary
• Estonian: tavaline — common, ordinary
• Finnish: tavallinen — common, ordinary
• Finnish: yksinkertainen — common, ordinary
• French: banal — common, ordinary
• Georgian: ჩვეულებრივი (čveulebrivi) — common, ordinary
• Georgian: ყოველდღიური (q̇oveldɣiuri) — common, ordinary
• Georgian: უბრალო (ubralo) — common, ordinary
• German: trivial — common, ordinary
• Greek: κοινός (koinós) — common, ordinary
• Hindi: सामान्य (sāmānya) — common, ordinary
• Hindi: साधारण (sādhāraṇ) — common, ordinary
• Hungarian: közönséges — common, ordinary
• Hungarian: útszéli — common, ordinary
• Italian: banale — common, ordinary
• Italian: ordinario — common, ordinary
• Japanese: ありふれた (arifureta) — common, ordinary
• Malayalam: സാധാരണ (sādhāraṇa) — common, ordinary
• Polish: trywialny — common, ordinary
• Portuguese: trivial — common, ordinary
• Romanian: trivial — common, ordinary
• Russian: тривиа́льный (triviálʹnyj) — common, ordinary
• Russian: бана́льный (banálʹnyj) — common, ordinary
• Russian: обы́чный (obýčnyj) — common, ordinary
• Scottish Gaelic: cumanta — common, ordinary
• Spanish: trivial — common, ordinary
• Swedish: trivial — common, ordinary
• Swedish: ordinär — common, ordinary
• Swedish: vanlig — common, ordinary
• Ukrainian: звича́йний (zvyčájnyj) — common, ordinary
• Ukrainian: тривіа́льний (tryviálʹnyj) — common, ordinary
• Ukrainian: неособли́вий (neosoblývyj) — common, ordinary
• Catalan: banal — concerned with or involving trivia
• Finnish: tyhjänpäiväinen — concerned with or involving trivia
• Finnish: turhanaikainen — concerned with or involving trivia
• Japanese: 蛇足の (dasoku no) — concerned with or involving trivia
• Ukrainian: віктори́нний (viktorýnnyj) — concerned with or involving trivia
• Ukrainian: цікавинко́вий (cikavynkóvyj) — concerned with or involving trivia
• Czech: druhový — (biology) relating to, or designating a species
• Japanese: 通称の (tsūshō no) — (biology) relating to, or designating a species
• Belarusian: трывія́льны (tryvijálʹny) — (mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
• Chinese Mandarin: 平凡 (píngfán) — (mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
• Esperanto: triviala — (mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
• Finnish: triviaali — (mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
• French: trivial — (mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
• German: trivial — (mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
• Italian: banale — (mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
• Norwegian: triviell — (mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
• Portuguese: trivial — (mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
• Russian: тривиа́льный (triviálʹnyj) — (mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
• Spanish: trivial — (mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
• Ukrainian: тривіа́льний (tryviálʹnyj) — (mathematics) of being the simplest possible case
• Czech: triviální — (mathematics) self-evident
• Finnish: triviaali — (mathematics) self-evident
• French: trivial — (mathematics) self-evident
• German: trivial — (mathematics) self-evident
• Greek: τετριμμένος (tetrimménos) — (mathematics) self-evident
• Hungarian: nyilvánvaló — (mathematics) self-evident
• Hungarian: magától értetődő — (mathematics) self-evident
• Hungarian: triviális — (mathematics) self-evident
• Icelandic: augljós — (mathematics) self-evident
• Japanese: 自明な (jimei na) — (mathematics) self-evident
• Norwegian: triviell — (mathematics) self-evident
• Portuguese: trivial — (mathematics) self-evident
• Russian: тривиа́льный (triviálʹnyj) — (mathematics) self-evident
• Spanish: trivial — (mathematics) self-evident
• Swedish: trivial — (mathematics) self-evident
• Swedish: uppenbar — (mathematics) self-evident
• Ukrainian: очеви́дний (očevýdnyj) — (mathematics) self-evident