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quadrivial

/kwɒdˈɹɪvi.əl/

quadrivial noun: any of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium.

Noun

quadrivial (plural quadrivials)

  1. Any of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium.
    • Tryuyals, & quatryuyals, ſo ſore now they appayre
      That Parrot the Popagay, hath pytye to beholde
      How the reſt of good lernyng, is roufled vp & troldc. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott
    • St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of...

Adjective

quadrivial (not comparable)

  1. Having four ways meeting in a point.
    • quadrivial streets1612, Ben Jonson, Epigrams
  2. Relating to the quadrivium.
    • […] but he took the greatest interest in the Quadrivial Curriculum, that is, mathematical science, on account of its intrinsic charms and the rigour of its demonstration.1893, Wilfrid Wallace, Life of St. Edmund of Canterbury: From Original Sources, page 85

quadrivial meaning in Urdu and Bengali

quadrivial in Urdu

چہار راہ, چوراہا, چوک

quadrivial in Bengali

কোয়াড্রিভিয়াম সংক্রান্ত

Forms of quadrivial

pluralquadrivials

Origin of quadrivial

Borrowed from Latin quadriviālis. By surface analysis, quadrivium + -al.

Questions about quadrivial

What does quadrivial mean?
Quadrivial means any of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium.
What is quadrivial in Urdu?
Quadrivial in Urdu is چہار راہ, چوراہا, چوک. See Quadrivial meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is quadrivial?
Quadrivial can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce quadrivial?
Quadrivial is pronounced /kwɒdˈɹɪvi.əl/.
What is the plural of quadrivial?
The plural of quadrivial is quadrivials.

Words near quadrivial in the dictionary

  1. quadrivector
  2. quadrivectors
  3. quadrivelocities
  4. quadrivelocity
  5. quadrivia
  6. quadrivial
  7. quadrivials
  8. quadrivious
  9. quadrivirus
  10. quadriviruses
  11. quadrivium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quadrivial (page history and authors); quadrivial (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quadrivial (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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