See trivium on Wiktionary
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"word": "bivium"
},
{
"word": "bivius"
},
{
"word": "quadrium"
},
{
"word": "quadrivia"
},
{
"word": "quadriviālē"
},
{
"word": "quadriviālis"
},
{
"word": "quadriviātim"
},
{
"word": "quadriviē"
},
{
"word": "quadrivium"
},
{
"word": "quadrivius"
},
{
"word": "trivia"
},
{
"word": "triviālē"
},
{
"word": "triviālis"
},
{
"word": "triviāliter"
},
{
"word": "triviātim"
},
{
"word": "triviē"
},
{
"word": "trivius"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"a crossroad, fork in the road or place where three ways meet"
],
"links": [
[
"crossroad",
"crossroad"
],
[
"fork in the road",
"fork in the road"
],
[
"place",
"place"
],
[
"way",
"way"
],
[
"meet",
"meet"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with historical senses",
"Medieval Latin",
"la:Education"
],
"glosses": [
"trivium (the lower division of the liberal arts in a medieval university; grammar, logic, and rhetoric)"
],
"links": [
[
"education",
"education"
],
[
"trivium",
"trivium#English:_Q205186"
],
[
"lower",
"lower"
],
[
"division",
"division"
],
[
"liberal arts",
"liberal arts"
],
[
"medieval",
"medieval"
],
[
"university",
"university"
],
[
"grammar",
"grammar"
],
[
"logic",
"logic"
],
[
"rhetoric",
"rhetoric"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Medieval Latin, education, historical) trivium (the lower division of the liberal arts in a medieval university; grammar, logic, and rhetoric)"
],
"tags": [
"Medieval-Latin",
"declension-2",
"historical",
"neuter"
],
"topics": [
"education"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈtrɪ.wi.ũː]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈtriː.vi.um]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "trivium"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "la",
"3": "trivium"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Latin trivium",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin trivium.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ro-noun-n",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "trivium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "triviumul",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "trivium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite"
]
},
{
"form": "triviumului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "triviumule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "trivium n (uncountable)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"gpd": "triviumelor",
"gpi": "triviume",
"gsd": "triviumului",
"gsi": "trivium",
"n": "sg",
"npd": "triviumele",
"npi": "triviume",
"nsd": "triviumul",
"nsi": "trivium",
"vp": "triviumelor",
"vs": "triviumule"
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun-single"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian terms borrowed from Latin",
"Romanian terms derived from Latin",
"Romanian uncountable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"trivium"
],
"links": [
[
"trivium",
"trivium#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "trivium"
}
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