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trivium

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triv⋅i⋅um

  [triv-ee-uhm]
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–noun
(during the Middle Ages) the lower division of the seven liberal arts, comprising grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
Compare quadrivium.

Origin:
1795–1805; < ML, special use of L trivium public place, lit., place where three roads meet. See trivial
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triv·i·um   (trĭv'ē-əm)   
n.   pl. triv·i·a (-ē-ə)
The lower division of the seven liberal arts in medieval schools, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

[Medieval Latin, from Latin, crossroads : tri-, tri- + via, road; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.]
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