quadrivium

From Medieval Latin quadrivium (“the four mathematical studies”), from Latin quattuor (“four”) + via (“road”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kwɒˈdɹɪvɪ.əm/, enPR: kwŏ-drĭv'ē-əm
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kwɑˈdɹɪvi.əm/, enPR: kwä-drĭv'ē-əm

quadrivium (plural quadriviums or quadrivia)

1. (education, historical) The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.

   Coordinate term: trivium

• quadruvium

From quattuor (“four”) +‎ via (“road, path”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʷaˈdrɪ.wi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kʷaˈd̪riː.vi.um]

quadrivium n (genitive quadriviī or quadrivī); second declension

1. a crossroads; place where four ways meet.
2. (Medieval Latin) the quadrivium (the four mathematical liberal arts)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “quadrivium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quadrivium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "quadrivium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quadrivium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “quadrivium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (carroge)
• “carrefour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

quadrivium n (uncountable)

1. alternative spelling of cvadrivium