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personalia en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.

Meanings

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