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It's Latin, meaning "three roads" (the Romans' name for a simple road junction). It's where people would meet and talk about, well, just gossip. Hence the modern meaning of the word.
"Trivial" means "of, or pertaining to, trivia".
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It's Latin. TRIVIA can be broken into Tri (meaning three) and via (meaning through). Signs in Rome used to be put at the crossroads of 3 streets (trivia) and this is where the word we use comes from.
Try this links it gives several answers as the source of the word TRIVIA has never been pinned down to one place
folk who are good at quizzes are said to know trivial, or useless knowladge. It is possibly derived from that. Trivial is also a word for petty or unimportant, and a mind of knowladge that is often unimportant may be where the term has come from.
It's a six-letter acronym...created by an 18th century publican...here's another little quiz - what do the letters stand for? (Bonus round)
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In early mediaeval universities, the first course of study covered three fairly easy subjects, and was called the TRIVIUM (Latin tri = three, via = way, trivium = thing of three ways).
If you got through that, your next course of study covered four more difficult subjects, and was called the QUADRIVIUM (thing of four ways). Naturally you would then use "trivial" to describe anything that was relatively easy or unimportant.
from the prefix tri-, "three", and via, "road". Trivium thus meant "the meeting place of three roads,
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