quadrivium
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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin quadrivium (“the four mathematical studies”), from Latin quattuor (“four”) + via (“road”).
Noun
quadrivium (plural quadriviums or quadrivia)
- (education, historical) The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.
Coordinate terms
Translations
higher division of the seven liberal arts
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Latin
Etymology
From quattuor (“four”) + via (“road, path”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷaˈdri.u̯i.um/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwaˈdri.vi.um/,
Noun
quadrivium n (genitive quadriviī or quadrivī); second declension
- a crossroads; place where four ways meet.
- (Medieval Latin) the quadrivium (the four mathematical liberal arts)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | quadrivium | quadrivia |
| Genitive | quadriviī quadrivī1 |
quadriviōrum |
| Dative | quadriviō | quadriviīs |
| Accusative | quadrivium | quadrivia |
| Ablative | quadriviō | quadriviīs |
| Vocative | quadrivium | quadrivia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Vulgar Latin: *quadruvium
- → English: quadrivium
- → Italian: quadrivio
- → Polish: quadrivium, kwadrywium
References
- “quadrivium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quadrivium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quadrivium 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)
- quadrivium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “quadrivium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (carroge)
- “carrefour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin quadrivium or French quadrivium.
Noun
quadrivium n (uncountable)
Declension
declension of quadrivium (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) quadrivium | quadriviumul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) quadrivium | quadriviumului |
| vocative | quadriviumule | |