trivium Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Triv"i*um noun
Etymology
LL. See Trivial.
Definitions
  1. The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence. ✍ The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven liberal arts. See Quadrivium.
  2. (Zoöl.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

Webster 1913