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miscellanea

noun
/ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪə/

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from miscellānea

Definitions

  1. A miscellaneous collection of different things

    A miscellaneous collection of different things; a miscellany.

    • 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.
    • 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,” […]
    • Through a renewed process of selection, miscellanea are cut down to compendia, which, once structurally organized, become texts

  2. plural of miscellaneum

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for miscellanea. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA