The modern English trivia is New Latin, being the neuter plural of trivius, but its meaning “unimportant things, trifles, trivialities” is influenced by triviality and dates only from the beginning of the 20th century. Trivia is a word in Latin, the (neuter) plural of trivium “crossroads, intersection,” and the feminine singular of the adjective trivius “pertaining to a trivium ” (especially used as an epithet of the goddess Diana). Regarded as a three-part deity, Diana has been known by various names, including Diana Trivia and simply Trivia.
The equivalent of Hecate in Roman mythology is Diana (especially one of Diana’s multiple personae). In Greek mythology, Hecate, who is associated with the moon and the netherworld, presides over (three-way) crossroads, doorways, magic, witchcraft, necromancy, and sorcery, and is mentioned as such by Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, and Macbeth. The Latin adjective triviālis, “pertaining to a crossroads or to public streets common, vulgar, ordinary,” is a derivative of the classical Latin noun trivium meaning “the place where three roads meet, crossroads, intersection,” also “the street corner, the gutter (where bad character and manners are formed, and boys and young men ruined),” and finally the place sacred to the goddess Hecate. This Medieval Latin sense of trivium dates from the Carolingian Renaissance of the late 8th century at the court of Charlemagne. He was playing the usual, common, “trivial” sense of trivial, “insignificant,” against its original English sense “pertaining to the trivium,” trivium being the first three of the seven liberal arts in the medieval university curriculum: (Latin) grammar, (Latin) rhetoric, and logic, so called because these subjects formed the “triple road to eloquence” ( triplex via ad eloquentiam ). They are quadrivial” is one of James Joyce’s innumerable puns. Nontrivial solutions include x 5, y 1 and x 2, y 0.4. For example, the equation x + 5y 0 has the trivial solution x 0, y 0. Nonzero solutions or examples are considered nontrivial. Often, solutions or examples involving the number 0 are considered trivial.
And then a piece of chicken that I've bought when it's on sale.“My puns are not trivial. A solution or example that is ridiculously simple and of little interest. "Now I'm eating canned tuna," Garcia said with a rueful laugh. Miriam Garcia, a retiree in Florida, has cut back on buying fresh salmon, even though she says it's good for you and "better than taking pills." Grocery prices jumped 11.2% over the last 12 months. Retirees, who don't have to commute every day, are typically less sensitive to rising gasoline prices than other consumers, but they do have to buy food.
"This is one way we can be sure that they can afford their housing costs and their food costs and other important necessities in their lives," said Kathleen Romig, director of Social Security and disability policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. About 1 in 5 seniors rely on Social Security for at least 90% of their income, so adjusting payments to keep pace with inflation is critical. The average retiree currently receives around $1625 a month. Social Security benefits still aren't all that generous. Whereas a lot of people in the working world, it depends on how the business is doing whether they get a raise or not." "People on Social Security always get referred to as being on a fixed income, but they're the only group in the country that is not on a fixed income," says Bill List, a retiree in Lititz, Pa. The jump is significantly more than the typical worker is getting. More than 65 million people will see the increased payments, including disabled workers and survivors as well as retirees. "Wow!" Christophersen exclaimed when told about the expected boost to her benefits.
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