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See also:TRIVIUM (See also:Lat. for See also:cross-road, i.e. where three roads meet, from tres, three, and via, road) , in See also:medieval educational systems, the curriculum which included See also:grammar, See also:rhetoric and See also:logic . The See also:trivium and the quadrivium (See also:arithmetic, See also:music, See also:geometry and See also:astronomy) together made up what are known as the seven liberal arts (see See also:EDUCATION: See also:Schools) . From the word in its See also:original sense is derived the See also:adjective " trivial " (See also:post-Aug . See also:Lat. trivialis), that which can be seen at the See also:cross-roads, i.e. unimportant, See also:commonplace . In See also:botany and See also:zoology the " trivial " name is the adjectival name which follows the genus name in a binominal See also:system of nomenclature, as canna, perennis, in See also:Rosa See also:canina, Bellis perennis . |
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