quadrivium

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: quad=riv=i=um

CIDE DICTIONARY

quadrivium, n. [L.].

 The four “liberal arts,” arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

quadrivium, n. hist. a medieval university course of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.

Etymology

L, = the place where four roads meet (as QUADRI-, via road)

ROGET THESAURUS

quadrivium

Four

N quaternity, four, tetrad, quartet, quaternion, square, quarter, tetract, tetragon, quadrangle, rectangle, tetrahedron, quadrature, quadrifoil, quadriform, quadruplet, quatrefoil, tetrapod, quadrangle, quad, quadrupole, quadrivium, four, quaternary, quaternal, quadratic, quartile, tetract, tetractic, tetractinal, tetrad, tetragonal, square, quadrate.