Associations to the word «Trivium»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

TRIVIUM, noun. (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley