trivialis Latin · revision 4537

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Quintilian|origins=la via}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [trɪ.wiˈaː.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [tri.viˈaː.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''triviālis''' (neuter triviāle); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|trivium|-ālis|t1=crossroads]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Quintilian speaks of commonplace knowledge.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Köbler dates him c. 35–95/96 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It properly meant belonging to the crossroads or public streets, and so found everywhere, common, commonplace, vulgar, a post-Augustan sense.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Suetonius uses it of common performers from the circus and of everyday words, and Juvenal of a commonplace poem.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Arnobius uses it in the sense threefold.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In medieval Latin it referred to the ''trivium'', the course of grammar, logic and rhetoric.^(DMLBS) [[en|trivial]] is recorded in the 1580s as ordinary and in the 1590s as insignificant.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of common knowledge.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of common words.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 297–310 AD – Arnobius uses it as threefold.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1580s – English ''trivial'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Common, commonplace, vulgar, [[m|en|trivial]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Threefold.^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Of the [[m|en|trivium]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|trivial]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}