trivium

Plural: trivia, triviums

Noun

• In medieval education, a curriculum of grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
• (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence
• The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric.
• The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
• Singular of trivia; anything of little importance.

Examples

• Playing TRIVIUM showed off his erudition, but only scored a modest sum.

Related Words

quadrivium, trivialis