quadrivial

American  

[kwo-driv-ee-uhl] / kwɒˈdrɪv i əl /

adjective

1. having four ways or roads meeting in a point.

2. (of ways or roads) leading in four directions.

3. of or relating to the quadrivium.

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quadrivial British  

/ kwɒˈdrɪvɪəl /

adjective

1. having or consisting of four roads meeting at a point

2. (of roads or ways) going in four directions

3. of or relating to the quadrivium

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Etymology

Origin of quadrivial

1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin quadriviālis, equivalent to Late Latin quadrivi ( um ) quadrivium + -ālis -al ¹

Example Sentences

It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs—a trivial or quadrivial place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travelers.

From Walking by Thoreau, Henry David

The last of the quadrivial subjects, Music, experienced a different history in different countries.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs—a trivial or quadrivial place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travellers.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William