trivium
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.
PronunciationEdit
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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/, [ˈt̪ɾɪwiʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtri.vi.um/, [ˈt̪ɾiːvium]
NounEdit
trivium n (genitive triviī or trivī); second declension
- a crossroads or fork where three roads meet
- (Medieval Latin) trivium
- accusative singular of trivium
- vocative singular of trivium
DeclensionEdit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
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).
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, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
- trivium in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
- trivium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- trivium in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden, Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co., 1894
- 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, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898