"miscellaneum" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps by back-formation from miscellanea, in accordance with the -um → -a rule of plural formation of neuter nouns in the nominative case from the Latin second declension.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "miscellanea",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "miscellaneum (plural miscellanea)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1652: Samuel Hartlib, Cornu Copia : A Miscellaneum of lucriferous and most fructiferous Experiments, Observations, and Discoveries, immethodically distributed ; to be really demonstrated and communicated in all Sincerity., book title (Harleian Miscellany, volume VI, pages 27–36)",
          "text": "Cornu Copia : A Miscellaneum of lucriferous and most fructiferous Experiments, Observations, and Discoveries, immethodically distributed ; to be really demonstrated and communicated in all Sincerity."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1851, The Musical World, page 129:",
          "text": "The second part was devoted to a miscellaneum. It commenced with a reference to the interdiction of stage entertainment in the time of the Protectorate.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999: Housman Society, Housman Society Journal, page 87 (Turner & Devereux)",
          "text": "Aside from those cited in this miscellaneum, other copies are to be seen at Bryn Mawr (inscribed by Kennerley to R. W. Ellis); Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; and private collection 1."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Shlomo Berger, Michael Brocke, Irene E Zwiep, Zutot 2003, Springer, →ISBN, page 28, →ISBN:",
          "text": "In this miscellaneum I would like to describe a medieval translation of Keter Malkhut which, to the best of my knowledge, has not been noted anywhere in scholarly literature.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A miscellany."
      ],
      "id": "en-miscellaneum-en-noun--MXwOzxA",
      "links": [
        [
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, chiefly archaic) A miscellany."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪəm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "miscellaneum"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps by back-formation from miscellanea, in accordance with the -um → -a rule of plural formation of neuter nouns in the nominative case from the Latin second declension.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "miscellanea",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "miscellaneum (plural miscellanea)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1652: Samuel Hartlib, Cornu Copia : A Miscellaneum of lucriferous and most fructiferous Experiments, Observations, and Discoveries, immethodically distributed ; to be really demonstrated and communicated in all Sincerity., book title (Harleian Miscellany, volume VI, pages 27–36)",
          "text": "Cornu Copia : A Miscellaneum of lucriferous and most fructiferous Experiments, Observations, and Discoveries, immethodically distributed ; to be really demonstrated and communicated in all Sincerity."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1851, The Musical World, page 129:",
          "text": "The second part was devoted to a miscellaneum. It commenced with a reference to the interdiction of stage entertainment in the time of the Protectorate.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999: Housman Society, Housman Society Journal, page 87 (Turner & Devereux)",
          "text": "Aside from those cited in this miscellaneum, other copies are to be seen at Bryn Mawr (inscribed by Kennerley to R. W. Ellis); Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; and private collection 1."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Shlomo Berger, Michael Brocke, Irene E Zwiep, Zutot 2003, Springer, →ISBN, page 28, →ISBN:",
          "text": "In this miscellaneum I would like to describe a medieval translation of Keter Malkhut which, to the best of my knowledge, has not been noted anywhere in scholarly literature.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A miscellany."
      ],
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, chiefly archaic) A miscellany."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪəm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "miscellaneum"
}