See Also: Trivium(medicine)
trivium(dictionary)

madal (iou) and trivium (iou)


madal (iou)



madal noun. E20.
[Origin unkn.]
A double-headed drum used in Nepal and the eastern Indian subcontinent. Cf. MRIDANGAM.

trivium (iou)



trivium noun. E19.
[Latin = place where three ways meet, formed as TRI- + via way: see -IUM.]
Hist. In the Middle Ages, the lower division of a university course of study, comprising grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Cf. Art noun1 4, QUADRIVIUM. E19.
Zoology. The three anterior ambulacra of an echinoderm (ventral in a holothurian). Cf. BIVIUM. L19.