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médiéval

French, adjective/me.dje.val/

médiéval is spelled M-É-D-I-É-V-A-L (8 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written French, the 14,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Médiéval is a French adjective meaning “medieval (relating to the Middle Ages)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif au Moyen Âge”.

What does médiéval mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    medieval (relating to the Middle Ages)

    latin médiéval

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Relatif au Moyen Âge.

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 médiéval

  • médiévale feminine
  • médiévaux masculine plural
  • médiévales feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce médiéval?

  • /me.dje.val/
  • \me.dje.val\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to médiéval

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is médiéval in French?

médiéval appears 3.4 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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