Definition of trivium Trivium

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What does trivium mean?

WordNet

Noun

Plural: triviums

trivium - (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence

arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"

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Wiktionary

trivium (Noun)
In medieval universities The lower division of the liberal arts ; grammar, logic and rhetoric.
trivium (Noun)
The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

trivium (n.)
The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.
trivium (n.)
The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

Wikipedia

band
Trivium is a Heavy metal band from Orlando, Florida. They started in 2000 and became very successful since then. The members are: Matt Heafy (vocals, guitar), Corey Beaulieu (guitar), Paolo Gregoletto (bass) and Travis Smith (drums). Right now Trivium are working on a new album.
liberal arts
From the Latin, trivium ("tres": "three" and "vía": "way", "way") is the set of three ways.

In the Antiquity and the Middle Ages, three of the seven liberal arts relatived to the eloquence: grammar, rhetoric and dialectics (or logic)

In the medieval universities, the trivium included the three basic aspects of the knowledge: The grammar as mechanics of the language; the logic (or dialectics - logic and dialectics became the words with the same meanings in the times) that is the "mechanics" of the thinking and the analysis; and the rhetoric that is the usage of the language in order to instruct and to persuade. In the medieval Scholasticism, they were considered camps preparing for the quadrivium which includes the arithmetic, the geometry, the music and the astronomy.