quadrivium
English edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin quadrivium (“the four mathematical studies”), from Latin quattuor (“four”) + via (“road”).
Noun edit
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 edit
Translations edit
higher division of the seven liberal arts
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From quattuor (“four”) + via (“road, path”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kʷaˈdri.u̯i.um/, [kʷäˈd̪riu̯iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwaˈdri.vi.um/, [kwäˈd̪riːvium]
Noun edit
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 edit
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 edit
- Vulgar Latin: *quadruvium
- → English: quadrivium
- → Italian: quadrivio
- → Polish: quadrivium, kwadrywium
References edit
- “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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin quadrivium or French quadrivium.
Noun edit
quadrivium n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of quadrivium (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) quadrivium | quadriviumul |
genitive/dative | (unui) quadrivium | quadriviumului |
vocative | quadriviumule |
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