Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Eumaeus/585
Annotations
[edit | edit source]minutiae minor details; trifles. Like alias on the previous page, minutiae is a late borrowing from Latin, which has become a naturalized English expression and is not generally italicized;[1] but the narrator of this episode (Bloom?) italicizes every word that has been borrowed from a foreign language, whether naturalized or not.