trivium
English
Etymology
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From Latin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪviəm/
Noun
trivium (plural triviums or trivia)
- (historical, in medieval universities) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric.
- (zoology) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
Derived terms
- trivia
- trivial
Related terms
- trivialis
- quadrivium
Latin
Etymology
From tri- (“three”) + via (“road”). Compare trivius (“epithet of deities having temples at the intersection of three roads”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtri.u̯i.um/, [ˈt̪riu̯iʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtri.vi.um/, [ˈt̪riːvium]
Noun
trivium n (genitive triviī or trivī); second declension
- a crossroads or fork where three roads meet
- (Medieval Latin) trivium
- accusative/vocative singular of trivium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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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
- inflection of trivius:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- 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
- 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
From Latin trivium.
Noun
trivium n (uncountable)
- trivium
Declension
declension of trivium (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) trivium | triviumul |
genitive/dative | (unui) trivium | triviumului |
vocative | triviumule |