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

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke