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trivium (iou) and zither (oh)


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.

zither (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Language: German; Origin: Greek kithara type of stringed instrument]
a musical instrument from Eastern Europe that consists of a flat box with strings stretched across it. You play it by pulling the strings with your fingers or a plectrum (=small piece of plastic, metal etc)