Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

personalia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: per-son-a-lia
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

All the personal belongings, writings and information of an individual.

noun

Announcements or requests issued in an association's periodical by or about individual members of that association.

Example Sentences

"Evidently doing this job would be as much a matter of probing his memory for links and identifications, as of reading his personalia and getting up the history of Sudan."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.

Questions

What does personalia mean?: All the personal belongings, writings and information of an individual.
Where does personalia come from?: Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.

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