realia
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Late Latin realia , neuter plural of realis ("real").
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]realia pl (plural only)
- Objects from real life or from the real world, as opposed to theoretical constructs or fabricated examples.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 28:
- It might be possible, for example, to work backwards from the known realia of Visigothic Spain.
- (linguistics ) Words and expressions for culture-specific material elements.
- (libraries , information science ) Physical objects in a library collection that do not fit into traditional categories of media, whose media are the objects themselves, as opposed to their informational content, such as artifacts, tools, memorabilia, and naturally-occurring specimens.
- 2002 April 14, Lev Grossman, "Catalog This", in The New York Times [1] , archived from the original on 21 May 2021, Education Life, page 26:
- "We acquire entire collections of materials for research purposes," explains Saundra Taylor, curator of manuscripts at the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington. "That inevitably includes something that's not books or manuscripts."Such as? "We have teeth, hair, all kinds of goofy things like that," says Katharine Salzmann, archivist and manuscripts curator at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. "We don't set out to buy them. It's just a happenstance kind of thing. Someone tosses them in the box, or forgets they're in the envelope."These unanticipated acquisitions are referred to in the trade variously as personal effects, ephemera, artifacts, memorabilia and, perhaps most evocatively, realia.
Translations
[edit ]real objects or facts
Anagrams
[edit ]Italian
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from Latin reālia ("real (things)"), neuter plural of reālis ("real").
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]realia m pl (plural only )
Further reading
[edit ]- "realia", in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026
Latin
[edit ]Adjective
[edit ]reālia
Anagrams
[edit ]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]realia m pl (definite realiene )
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]realia n pl
Polish
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Learned borrowing from Late Latin realia , neuter plural of realis ("real").
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]realia nvir pl
- realia (objects from real life or from the real world, as opposed to theoretical constructs or fabricated examples)
- (literature , film ) backstory, background
Declension
[edit ]Declension of realia
Related terms
[edit ]adverbs
nouns
Further reading
[edit ]- "realia", in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- "realia", in Polish dictionaries at PWN[3] (in Polish)
Swedish
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Late Latin realia , neuter plural of realis ("real").
Noun
[edit ]realia n pl
- (linguistic pedagogy) facts about conditions in the country where the language is spoken (as opposed to grammar and vocabulary)
References
[edit ]- "realia", in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- "realia", in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- "realia", in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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