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

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John Adams