Definitions for trivium

trivium triv·i·um

Spelling: [triv-ee-uh m]
IPA: /ˈtrɪv i əm/

Trivium is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in trivium (iimrtuv).

Definitions for trivium

noun

  1. (during the Middle Ages) the lower division of the seven liberal arts, comprising grammar, rhetoric, and logic.

Origin of trivium

1795-1805; Medieval Latin, special use of Latin trivium public place, literally, place where three roads meet. See trivial

Examples for trivium

But let us rather seek it in the curriculum of the trivium and Quadrivium.

Such men as Anselm were educated on the trivium and Quadrivium.

He was versed not less in the arts of the trivium than in the sciences of the Quadrivium.

The trivium was an introduction to metaphysics, but the metaphysics were strongly theological in bias and nakedly logical in form.

A special importance must be assigned to the school of grammar—the first member of the trivium—at Cambridge.

These subjects were the trivium, and the more advanced Quadrivium.

Thus the first three books contain the trivium and Quadrivium.

A century later the parliamentary commissioners introduced mathematics into the trivium where it replaced grammar.

The trivium was the real basis of the secular education of the period.

The trivium was sometimes designated as logic and the Quadrivium as physic.

Word Value for trivium
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12

Words with friends

15

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