Word Study
Trivium
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)
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