Added 9 October 2026
trivial
/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/ adjective
In Latin: levis, sublestus Wiktionary
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- Ignorable; of little significance or value.
- Commonplace, ordinary.
- Easy; requiring little skill or effort.
noun
Origin
PIE word *tréyes * From Latin triviālis (“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar”), from trivium (“place where three roads meet”). Compare trivium, trivia. * From the distinction between trivium (“the lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric”) and quadrivium (“the higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music”).
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