trivium

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: triv=i=um

CIDE DICTIONARY

trivium, n. [LL. See Trivial.].

•  The three “ liberal” arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.  [1913 Webster]

  " The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven liberal arts. See Quadrivium."  [1913 Webster]
•  The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

trivium, n. hist. a medieval university course of grammar, rhetoric, and logic.

Etymology

L, = place where three roads meet (as TRI-, via road)