noun
- the three liberal arts of grammar, rhetoric, and logic that formed the lower division of medieval university education
Usage: historical; education
Examples
- Medieval students first mastered the trivium before advancing to the quadrivium.
- The trivium provided the foundation for all higher learning in medieval universities.
- Grammar, rhetoric, and logic comprised the classical trivium.
- After completing the trivium, students could pursue theology or law.
- The trivium emphasized the arts of language and reasoning.
- Medieval education was divided into the trivium and quadrivium.