Quadrivium – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
quadrivium
n.
four disciplines that comprised the advanced division of university studies during the Middle Ages (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy)
Quadrivium
The
quadrivium (plural: quadrivia) are the four subjects, or arts, taught after teaching the
trivium. The word is
Latin, meaning "the four ways" (or a "place where four roads meet"), and its use for the four subjects has been attributed to
Boethius or
Cassiodorus in the 6th century. Together, the
trivium and the quadrivium comprised the seven
liberal arts (based on thinking skills), as opposed to the practical arts (such as
medicine and
architecture).
Quadrivium (das)
n.
quadrivium, four disciplines that comprised the advanced division of university studies during the Middle Ages (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy)
Quadrivium
(n.)
The four "liberal arts," arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Quadrivium
Quadrivium (Latin) [from quattuor four + via path] A place where four roads meet and cross; used by Boethius and medieval scholars to denote the higher division of the seven liberal arts: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy; the lower division, or trivium, consists of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
