Latin, meaning: crossroads, place where four roads meet.
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Latin, meaning: second stage of the medieval curriculum
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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 ...
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four branches of mathematics in medieval education
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• (n.) The four `liberal arts,` arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.
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(from the article `mathematics`) ...was well known and was the means by which medieval scholars learned of Pythagorean number theory. Boethius and Cassiodorus provided the material ... From earliest times it had been held that the trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the quadrivium (geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, music) were ... ...
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In medieval education, the four advanced liberal arts (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music), which were studied after mastery of the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, and logic). ...
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The study of arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and music, which formed the basis of a master's degree
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Quad·riv'i·um noun [ Latin ] The four 'liberal arts,' arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See
Trivium .
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quadrivium Four ways [roads]. The collective name given by the schoolmen (educators) of the Middle Ages to the four 'liberal arts'; viz., arithmetic, music, geography, and astronomy. The quadrivium was the 'fourfold way' to knowledge; the trivium, to the 'threefold way' to eloquence; both together compiled the Seven Liberal Arts enumerated in the ...
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The major subjects taught in medieval times: geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music.
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noun (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy
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(Lat. quatuor, and viae, four ways) The second, and more advanced group of liberal arts studies in the middle ages, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. -- V.J.B. See Trivium for the other three of the seven liberal arts, first proposed for education by Plato, Republic, III.
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(during the Middle Ages) the more advanced division of the seven liberal arts, comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. Cf.
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crossroads, place where four roads meet.
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second stage of the medieval curriculum
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