different between echinoderm vs trivium

English

Etymology

From French échinoderme, corresponding to echino- +? -derm, after plural of 18th-century Latin echinoderma.

Noun

echinoderm (plural echinoderms)

1. An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French échinoderme.

Noun

echinoderm n (plural echinoderme)

1. echinoderm

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??vi?m/

Noun

trivium (plural triviums or trivia)

1. (historical, in medieval universities) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric.
2. (zoology) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

Derived terms

• trivia
• trivial

Related terms

• trivialis
• quadrivium

Latin

Etymology

From tri- (“three”) +? via (“road”). Compare trivius (“epithet of deities having temples at the intersection of three roads”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tri.u?i.um/, [?t???u?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tri.vi.um/, [?t??i?vium]

Noun

trivium n (genitive trivi? or triv?); second declension

1. a crossroads or fork where three roads meet
2. (Medieval Latin) trivium
3. accusative singular of trivium
4. vocative singular of trivium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Adjective

trivium

1. nominative neuter singular of trivius
2. accusative masculine singular of trivius
3. accusative neuter singular of trivius
4. vocative neuter singular of trivius

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• trivium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• trivium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin trivium

Noun

trivium n (uncountable)

1. trivium

Declension