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Quadrivium

//kwɒˈdɹɪvɪ.əm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music. historical

    "As to the nature of his studies, there can be no doubt that he [Dante] went through the trivium (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy) of the then ordinary university course."

  2. 2
    (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy wordnet

Etymology

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

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