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Trivia refers to bits of information, often of little importance.〔https://books.google.com/books?id=Urg3hNc4tu0C&pg=PT175〕 == Latin meaning and etymology == The ''trivia'' (singular ''trivium'') are three lower ''Artes Liberales'', i.e. grammar, logic and rhetoric. These were the topics of basic education, foundational to the ''quadrivia'' of higher education, and hence the material of basic education and an important building block for all undergraduates. The ancient Romans used the word ''trivia'' to describe where one road split or forked into two roads. Trivia was formed from ''tri'' (three) and ''via'' (road) – literally meaning "three roads", and in transferred use "a public place" and hence the meaning "commonplace". The pertaining adjective is ''triviālis''. The adjective ''trivial'' was adopted in Early Modern English, while the noun ''trivium'' only appears in learned usage from the 19th century, in reference to the ''Artes Liberales'' and the plural ''trivia'' in the sense of "trivialities, trifles" only in the 20th century. The Latin adjective ''triviālis'' in Classical Latin besides its literal meaning could have the meaning "appropriate to the street corner, commonplace, vulgar." In late Latin, it could also simply mean "triple". In medieval Latin, it came to refer to the lower division of the ''Artes Liberales'', namely grammar, rhetoric, and logic. (The other four Liberal Arts were the ''quadrivium'', namely arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, which were more challenging.) Hence, ''trivial'' in this sense would have meant "of interest only to an undergraduate". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「trivia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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