trivium

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English

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Etymology

PIE word
*tréyes

From Latin.

Pronunciation

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.

Derived terms

Related terms

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

trivium n (genitive triviī or trivī); second declension

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

Descendants

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

Adjective

trivium

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

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, 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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trivium.

Noun

trivium n (uncountable)

  1. trivium

Declension

declension of trivium (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) trivium triviumul
genitive/dative (unui) trivium triviumului
vocative triviumule
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