realia en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɹiːˈeɪlɪə/ (UK)
- /ɹeɪˈɑːlɪə/ (UK)
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Etymology
From Late Latin realia, neuter plural of realis (“real”).
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) Objects from real life or from the real world, as opposed to theoretical constructs or fabricated examples.
It might be possible, for example, to work backwards from the known realia of Visigothic Spain.
2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 28:
- (plural, plural-only) Words and expressions for culture-specific material elements.
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(plural, plural-only, qualifier:libraries) 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.
"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."
2002 April 14, Lev Grossman, “Catalog This”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 May 2021, Education Life, page 26:
Translations (7)
pl realia (real objects or facts) · hu reália (real objects or facts) · ru реа́лия (real objects or facts) · es realia (real objects or facts) · fr realia (real objects or facts) · mk реалија (real objects or facts) · no realia (real objects or facts)