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quadrivial
Jul. 19th, 2006 07:08 amquadrivial - adj., having four ways or roads meeting at a point.
A cross-road -- more common now, with planned urbes on a rectilinear grid, but as opposed to a trivial (threeway) intersection of old. From Latin quadrivium, a place where four ways meet, from quattuor, four + via, way. The metaphoric uses of "one more/better than trivial" appeal to me.
(I'm ignoring the senses related to the quadrivium of medieval education.)
---L.
A cross-road -- more common now, with planned urbes on a rectilinear grid, but as opposed to a trivial (threeway) intersection of old. From Latin quadrivium, a place where four ways meet, from quattuor, four + via, way. The metaphoric uses of "one more/better than trivial" appeal to me.
(I'm ignoring the senses related to the quadrivium of medieval education.)
---L.
