trivium
Contents
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin
NounEdit
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.
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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From tri- (“three”) + via (“road”). Compare trivius, epithet of deities having temples at the intersection of three roads.
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtri.wi.um/, [ˈtrɪ.wi.ũ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtri.vi.um/, [ˈtriː.vi.um]
NounEdit
trivium n (genitive triviī); second declension
- a crossroads or fork where three roads meet
- (Medieval Latin) trivium
- accusative singular of trivium
- vocative singular of trivium
InflectionEdit
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | trivium | trivia |
| genitive | triviī | triviōrum |
| dative | triviō | triviīs |
| accusative | trivium | trivia |
| ablative | triviō | triviīs |
| vocative | trivium | trivia |
AdjectiveEdit
trivium
- nominative neuter singular of trivius
- accusative masculine singular of trivius
- accusative neuter singular of trivius
- vocative neuter singular of trivius
ReferencesEdit
- 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
- du Cange, Charles (1883), “trivium”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
- “trivium” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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