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English
Etymology
From Late Latin realia, neuter plural of realis (“real”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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, 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.
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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reālia (“real (things)”), neuter plural of reālis (“real”).
Pronunciation
Noun
realia m pl (plural only)
Further reading
- realia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Adjective
reālia
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Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
realia m pl (definite realiene)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
realia n pl
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin realia, neuter plural of realis (“real”).
Pronunciation
Noun
realia f
- realia (objects from real life or from the real world, as opposed to theoretical constructs or fabricated examples)
- (literature, film) backstory, background
Declension
Declension of realia
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Swedish
Etymology
From Late Latin realia, neuter plural of realis (“real”).
Noun
realia n pl
- (linguistic pedagogy) facts about conditions in the country where the language is spoken (as opposed to grammar and vocabulary)
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