trivium
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin trivium.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪviəm/
=== Noun ===
trivium (plural triviums or trivia)
(education, historical) The lower division of the liberal arts in a medieval university; grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
Coordinate terms: quadrivium, quadrium
(zoology) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
(rare) Singular of trivia; anything of little importance.
==== Derived terms ====
trivia
trivial
==== Related terms ====
trivialis
quadrivium
== Indonesian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from English trivium, from Latin trivium.
=== Pronunciation ===
(Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /triˈvium/ [t̪riˈfi.ʊm]
Rhymes: -um
Syllabification: tri‧vi‧um
=== Noun ===
trivium (plural trivium-trivium)
(education, historical) trivium (the lower division of the liberal arts in a medieval university; grammar, logic, and rhetoric)
=== Further reading ===
“trivium”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
The noun is a neuter substantive from trivius (“having three approaches”), from tri- (“three”) + via (“road; way”).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtrɪ.wi.ũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtriː.vi.um]
=== Adjective ===
trivium
inflection of trivius:
nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
accusative masculine singular
=== Noun ===
trivium m
accusative singular of trivius
=== Noun ===
trivium n (genitive triviī or trivī); second declension
a crossroad, fork in the road or place where three ways meet
(Medieval Latin, education, historical) trivium (the lower division of the liberal arts in a medieval university; grammar, logic, and rhetoric)
==== Declension ====
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
==== Related terms ====
==== Descendants ====
Italian: treppio, treppo, trebbio, trebbo
→ English: trivium
→ Italian: trivio
→ Ukrainian: три́віум (trývium)
=== 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, 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[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
“trivium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
== Romanian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin trivium.
=== Noun ===
trivium n (uncountable)
trivium
==== Declension ====