trivium

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin

Noun

trivium (plural triviums or trivia)

1. (historical, in medieval universities) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric.
2. (zoology) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪviəm/

Derived terms

• trivia
• trivial

Related terms

• trivialis
• quadrivium

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Latin

Etymology

From tri- (“three”) +‎ via (“road”). Compare trivius (“epithet of deities having temples at the intersection of three roads”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.u̯i.um/, [ˈt̪riu̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.vi.um/, [ˈt̪riːvium]

Noun

trivium n (genitive triviī or trivī); second declension

1. a crossroads or fork where three roads meet
2. (Medieval Latin) trivium
3. accusative singular of trivium
4. vocative singular of trivium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trivium	trivia
Genitive	triviī trivī1	triviōrum
Dative	triviō	triviīs
Accusative	trivium	trivia
Ablative	triviō	triviīs
Vocative	trivium	trivia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) trivium

1. nominative neuter singular of trivius
2. accusative masculine singular of trivius
3. accusative neuter singular of trivius
4. vocative neuter singular of trivius

References

• “trivium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “trivium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• trivium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• trivium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Hercules at the cross-roads, between virtue and vice: Hercules in trivio, in bivio, in compitis
    
• “trivium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers