Quadrivium Definition

kwŏ-drĭvē-əm
quadrivia
noun
In the Middle Ages, the higher division of the seven liberal arts, consisting of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Quadrivium

Noun

Singular:
quadrivium
Plural:
quadrivia

Origin of Quadrivium

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin from Latin place where four roads meet quadri- quadri- via road via

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Quadrivium Sentence Examples

  • More remarkable still were his methods of teaching the quadrivium.

  • The influence of Varro's last work on the nine disciplinae, or branches of study, long survived in the seven " liberal arts " recognized by St Augustine and Martianus Capella, and in the trivium and quadrivium of the middle ages.

  • The subjects in which the medieval universities examined were (i.) those of the trivium and quadrivium in the faculty of arts; (ii.) theology; (iii.) medicine; and (iv.) civil and canon law.

  • In medieval times obtained after studying the quadrivium; now obtainable by any Cambridge Bachelor of Arts six clear years after matriculation.

  • We see from a statement of Cassiodorus that he furnished manuals for the quadrivium of the schools of the middle ages (the " quattuor matheseos disciplinae," as Boetius calls them) on arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy.

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