英语词汇trivial的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

trivial. Some trivia about the word trivial. One theory holds that trivia derives from the Roman trivium, or “crossroads,” where people met to discuss small, insignificant things. Another, less favored, says that during the Middle Ages the seven liberal arts were divided into the quadrivium (consisting of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music) and the trivium (consisting of rhetoric, logic, and grammar). Since the trivium was considered less substantial, its subjects more superficial, the word trivium eventually gave us the word trivial.

词汇	trivial
词源	trivial. Some trivia about the word trivial. One theory holds that trivia derives from the Roman trivium, or “crossroads,” where people met to discuss small, insignificant things. Another, less favored, says that during the Middle Ages the seven liberal arts were divided into the quadrivium (consisting of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music) and the trivium (consisting of rhetoric, logic, and grammar). Since the trivium was considered less substantial, its subjects more superficial, the word trivium eventually gave us the word trivial.
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