| Apposition | A school exercise in which students are asked to translate a vernacular sentence into Latin orally |
| Chekhov’s gun | The aesthetic principle that a plot should have no redundancies: if a gun is mentioned in the first act, it must go off by the third. |
| Disputation | A formal debate grounded in logic and rhetoric |
| Ius ubique docendi | The right to teach at any university (of a select group), bestowed upon MA graduates |
| Liberal arts | The seven subjects taught in the arts degree: grammar, logic, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy |
| Nation | A student organization that accepts members on the basis of their region of origin |
| Oblate | A child dedicated to the Church by giving it into the custody of a monastery |
| Quadrivium | The “sciences” part of the arts curriculum: geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy |
| Studium generale | A place where higher education is available to students from all regions |
| Trivium | The “humanities” part of the arts curriculum: grammar, logic, and rhetoric |