quadrivium

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

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.

• trivium

• *quadruvium (Vulgar)

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷaˈdri.wi.um/, [kʷaˈdrɪ.wi.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwaˈdri.vi.um/, [kwaˈdriː.vi.um]

quadrivium n (genitive quadriviī); second declension

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

Second declension.

• English: quadrivium
• Old French: carroge, carouge
  • French: Carouge, Carrouge (towns in Switzerland)

• 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, 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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).