trivium
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of trivium
1795–1805; < Medieval Latin, special use of Latin trivium public place, literally, place where three roads meet. See trivial
Vocabulary lists containing trivium
Example Sentences
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She went on to write a PhD dissertation on the effect of formal rhetoric on Shakespeare’s language, and remained an evangelist for the use of the trivium in education.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
The three arts of the trivium relate to the mind, and the four of the quadrivium to matter.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
He doubted "that the curriculum of any modern university shows so clear and generous a comprehension of what is meant by culture as this old trivium and quadrivium did."
From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh
So that so far as Europe goes, one may very well regard this modern modern-language teaching as—with the modern mathematics—an extension of the trivium, of the apparatus, that is, of thought and expression.
From Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Early university studies were in two parts, the trivium —grammar, rhetoric, and logic, and the quadrivium— music, astronomy, geometry, and arithmetic.
From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage
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