Where does “trivial” come from?

trivial (German) comes from French trivial, from Latin trivialis, from Latin trivius, from Latin tri-, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

trivial (German): trivial (common, easy, obvious)

Definitions

trivial (common, easy, obvious)

Ancestry of “trivial”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	trivial	trivial; ordinary, mundane; colloquial
2	Latin	trivialis	common, commonplace, ordinary, trivial
3	Latin	trivius	of or belonging to crossroad temples
4	Latin	tri-	three, tri-
5	Latin	trēs	three; 3
6	Proto-Italic	trēs	three
7	Proto-Indo-European	*tréyes	—

Words derived from “trivial”

Trivialname
trivialisieren

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →