Who coined the word "trivia"..first?

Question

Who coined the word "trivia"..first?

Answer 1

It comes from a latin word which meant "where three roads meet", in other words the place where you stood or sat and chatted with your friends. The word came to mean vulgar, commonplace, ordinary, and eventually trivial in the modern sense. This meaning was popularised in the Eighteenth Century when travellers wrote down what they thought were interesting bits of information about the places and the people that they met. It was much easier than writing an organised book and the pattern had been established in the ancient world by writers such as Herodotus, etc..

Answer 2

In medieval universities, students would first be taught the "trivium". three subjects, comprising

Logic

Grammer

Rhetoric

These were the basics skills needed to able to understand and communicate knowledge. When these basics were mastered students could go on to the "Quadrivium", the four, more advanced, subjects of

Arithmetic

Astronomy

Geometry

Music

Trivia is the plural derived from Trivium, meaning basic knowledge and eventually came to mean "not very unimportant" knowledge. So the origin is about the 12th century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium_(ed...