quadrivium
English
editEtymology
editFrom Medieval Latin quadrivium (“the four mathematical studies”), from Latin quattuor (“four”) + via (“road”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kwɒˈdɹɪvɪ.əm/, enPR: kwŏ-drĭv'ē-əm
- (General American) IPA(key): /kwɑˈdɹɪvi.əm/, enPR: kwä-drĭv'ē-əm
Noun
editquadrivium (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 term: trivium
Translations
edithigher division of the seven liberal arts
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Latin
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editquadrivium n (genitive quadriviī or quadrivī); second declension
- a crossroads; place where four ways meet.
- (Medieval Latin) the quadrivium (the four mathematical liberal arts)
Declension
editSecond-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 (learned)
- → French: quadrivium (learned)
- → German: Quadrivium (learned)
- → Italian: quadrivio (learned)
- → Polish: quadrivium, kwadrywium (learned)
- → Romanian: cvadrivium, quadrivium (learned)
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
editNoun
editquadrivium n (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of cvadrivium
Declension
edit declension of quadrivium (singular only)
singular | ||
---|---|---|
n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) quadrivium | quadriviumul |
genitive/dative | (unui) quadrivium | quadriviumului |
vocative | quadriviumule |
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