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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Word of the Day: Personalia
Can you pronounce personalia?
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
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noun
1. All the personal belongings, writings and information of an individual. 2. (Publishing) Announcements or requests issued in an association's periodical by or about individual members of that association.
"The Edgar Allan Poe House contains much of his life's personalia."
"Robert had to make many treks back to his childhood home to collect all of his personalia."
"His best writing was intimate, inspired by the personalia of his life. "
Latin, mid-19th century
"Personalia" developed from the classical Latin word "personālia" ("personal"); however, its first use in the context of a collection of writings and belongings of a notable individual was found in a mid-19th-century issue of the magazine "The North American Review." Pop artist Andy Warhol was obsessed with keeping the miscellaneous objects of his life. ...
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