échevinal
French, adjective/eʃ.vi.nal/
échevinal is spelled É-C-H-E-V-I-N-A-L (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 110,748th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Échevinal is a French adjective meaning “aldermanic, aldermanlike, aldermanly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui concerne le corps des échevins ou une municipalité”.
What does échevinal mean in English?
adjective
- 1
aldermanic, aldermanlike, aldermanly
le collège échevinal
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui concerne le corps des échevins ou une municipalité.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of échevinal
- échevinale feminine
- échevinaux masculine plural
- échevinales feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce échevinal?
- /eʃ.vi.nal/
- /ɛʃ.vi.nal/
- \e.ʃ(ə).vi.nal\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is échevinal in French?
échevinal appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).