trivium noun. ['trɪvɪǝm] E19.
[Latin = place where three ways meet, formed as TRI- + via way: see -IUM.]
1. Hist. In the Middle Ages, the lower division of a university course of study, comprising grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Cf. ART noun¹ 4, QUADRIVIUM. E19.

2. Zoology. The three anterior ambulacra of an echinoderm (ventral in a holothurian). Cf. BIVIUM. L19.

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