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trivium

[ triv-ee-uhm ]

noun

  1. (during the Middle Ages) the lower division of the seven liberal arts, comprising grammar, rhetoric, and logic.


trivium

/ ˈtrɪvɪəm /

noun

  1. (in medieval learning) the lower division of the seven liberal arts, consisting of grammar, rhetoric, and logic Compare quadrivium
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of trivium1

1795–1805; < Medieval Latin, special use of Latin trivium public place, literally, place where three roads meet. See trivial
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Word History and Origins

Origin of trivium1

C19: from Medieval Latin, from Latin: crossroads; see trivial
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Example Sentences

Apple frames these disciplines as modern equivalents to the Medieval trivium — an essential educational resource that makes a person a person.

The grammar school curriculum consisted of grammar, logic, and rhetoric—a three-part system of knowledge called “the trivium” that was regarded as the foundation of learning.

Progress in wisdom was to be obtained, so far as secular knowledge was concerned, by the “seven ascents of theoretical discipline,” i.e. the trivium and the quadrivium.

He doubted "that the curriculum of any modern university shows so clear and generous a comprehension of what is meant by culture as this old trivium and quadrivium did."

Here, he taught the trivium and quadrivium—grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, and arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy—the seven arts.

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