different between quadrivium vs trivium

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).

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