See Also: Trivium(medicine)
trivium(dictionary)

trivium (iou)



trivium noun. E19.
[Latin = place where three ways meet, formed as TRI- + via way: see -IUM.]
Hist. In the Middle Ages, the lower division of a university course of study, comprising grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Cf. ART noun1 4, QUADRIVIUM. E19.
Zoology. The three anterior ambulacra of an echinoderm (ventral in a holothurian). Cf. BIVIUM. L19.