personalia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.

Noun

personalia pl (plural only)

  1. All the personal belongings, writings and information of an individual.
    • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 96:
      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.
  2. (publishing) Announcements or requests issued in an association's periodical by or about individual members of that association.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Noun

personalia pl (plural only)

  1. general personal information (such as would be listed on e.g. a curriculum vitae), such as full name, age, place and date of birth, e-mail address, and telephone number

Descendants

  • Indonesian: personalia

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch personalia, from Latin persōnālia.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /pərsonaˈlia/ [pər.so.naˈli.a]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: per‧so‧na‧li‧a

Noun

personalia (plural personalia-personalia)

  1. personalia
  2. personnel department
  3. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) human resource department

Further reading

Latin

Adjective

persōnālia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of persōnālis

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Neuter plural of Latin personalis.

Noun

personalia pl (plural only)

  1. personal data, biographic information

References

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin persōnālia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛr.sɔˈna.lja/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -alja
  • Syllabification: per‧so‧na‧lia

Noun

personalia nvir pl

  1. (computing) personal data
    Synonym: dane osobowe
    Hypernym: dane

Declension

Further reading

  • personalia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • personalia in Polish dictionaries at PWN