Meineid
German, noun/ˈmaɪ̯nˌaɪ̯t/
Meineid is spelled M-E-I-N-E-I-D (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 58,632nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Meineid is a German masculine noun meaning “a perjury, a deliberately false oath about something in the past” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Verbrechen, das darin besteht, vor Gericht oder vor einer anderen zur Abnahme von Eiden zuständigen Stelle…”.
What does Meineid mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea perjury, a deliberately false oath about something in the past
einen Meineid leisten/schwören
- 2
datedmasculineany broken oath, e.g. a vow later violated
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Verbrechen, das darin besteht, vor Gericht oder vor einer anderen zur Abnahme von Eiden zuständigen Stelle eine falsche Aussage zu beschwören (§ 154 StGB)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Meineid
- Meineides genitive
- Meineids genitive
- Meineide plural
- Meineiden dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Meineid?
- /ˈmaɪ̯nˌaɪ̯t/
- [ˈmaɪ̯nˌʔaɪ̯t]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Meineid
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Meineid in German?
Meineid appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).