English
administrivia
Blend of administrative + trivia.
A blend of administrative + trivia
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- ‘to chase’
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Latin via ‘road’
Latin trivius ‘having three approaches’
Latin trivium ‘place where three roads meet’
Latin trivia ‘plural of trivium’
English trivia
The story
First use appears c. 1937 in International Journal of Ethics.
Today it means
noun Administrative details that which take a significant amount of time to complete.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / administrivia