trivium

From Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪviəm/

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.

• trivia
• trivial

• trivialis
• quadrivium

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

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

trivium n (genitive triviī or trivī); second declension

1. a crossroads or fork where three roads meet
2. (Medieval Latin) trivium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• Italian: trebbio
• → English: trivium
• → Italian: trivio

trivium

1. inflection of trivius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

• “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, 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

Borrowed from Latin trivium.

trivium n (uncountable)

1. trivium