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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats