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語源 1

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

名詞

miscellanea (plural miscellanea)

1. 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

関連する語

• miscellaneous
• miscellany

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

名詞

miscellanea

1. plural of miscellaneum

アナグラム

• mésalliance

形容詞

miscellānea

1. inflection of miscellāneus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

形容詞

miscellāneā

1. ablative feminine singular of miscellāneus

参照

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