different between astronomy vs quadrivium

English

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Etymology

From Middle English astronomie, astronemy, from Old French astronomie, equivalent to astro- +? -nomy. Displaced native Old English tungolcræft.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??st??n??mi/, /æ?st??n??mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

astronomy (usually uncountable, plural astronomies)

1. The study of the physical universe beyond the Earth's atmosphere, including the process of mapping locations and properties of the matter and radiation in the universe.
2. (obsolete) Astrology.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 14:

     Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;

     And yet methinks I have astronomy ...

Usage notes

• The study of the physical processes which control matter and energy in the universe is commonly called astrophysics. The investigation of the origin, evolution, and fate of the universe itself is called cosmology.

Synonyms

• stargazing

Hypernyms

• science

Hyponyms

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Related terms

Translations

See also

• cosmology
• uranology
• starlore

References

• astronomy at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin quadrivium (“the four mathematical studies”), from Latin quattuor (“four”) + via (“road”).

Noun

quadrivium (plural quadriviums or quadrivia)

1. (education, historical) The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.

Coordinate terms

• trivium

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• *quadruvium (Vulgar)

Etymology

From quattuor (“four”) +? via (“road”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?a?dri.u?i.um/, [k?ä?d???u?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa?dri.vi.um/, [kw??d??i?vium]

Noun

quadrivium n (genitive quadrivi? or quadriv?); second declension

1. a crossroads; place where four ways meet.
2. (Medieval Latin) the quadrivium (the four mathematical liberal arts)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• English: quadrivium
• Old French: carroge, carouge
  • French: Carouge, Carrouge (towns in Switzerland)
• Polish: quadrivium, kwadrywium

References

• 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, 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 IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (carroge)
• “carrefour” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).