Etymology lesson of the week

31Oct06

:: Trivia ::
Coming from the Latin, ‘tri-’,meaning ‘three’ and ‘via’, meaning ‘road’ or ‘the way’.
 Trivium thus meant “the meeting place of three roads, especially as a place of public resort.” People actually met at that point and discussed interesting topics, such as a rhetoric would.
In the Roman empire, a trivium would often have a tavern [...]

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