technicalia

noun
/ˌtɛknɪˈkeɪli.ə/

Etymology

By surface analysis, technical + -ia (“a collection of things”). Evidently modelled after other nouns descended from substantivized Latin -ālis adjectives in the neuter plural: marginalia, paraphernalia, generalia, regalia, militaria, etc.

Definitions

  1. Technical details, especially ones that are tedious or of little interest to…

    Technical details, especially ones that are tedious or of little interest to nonspecialists; technicalities.

    • Copernicus himself made few observations but was steeped both in the technicalia of astronomical geometry and in the humanistic tradition.
    • If you don’t care about the technicalia of Internet mail, the next two paragraphs can be safely skipped.
  2. Technical language

    Technical language; jargon.

    • […]though much of the Latin loan material consists of military or governmental technicalia, there exists, in addition, a considerable stratum which provides insight into the lexical equipment of the more popular levels of society.
    • Unusually for such technicalia, rebracketing is a good, solid English word, not Latin or Greek.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for technicalia. 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