médire
French, verb/me.diʁ/
médire is spelled M-É-D-I-R-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 82,784th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Médire is a French verb meaning “to slander, to speak badly of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dire du mal de quelqu’un, soit par méchanceté, soit par légèreté”.
What does médire mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto slander, to speak badly of
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dire du mal de quelqu’un, soit par méchanceté, soit par légèreté.
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 médire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- médisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- médit participle past
- médis first-person indicative present
- médisons first-person indicative plural
- médisez indicative plural present
- médisent indicative plural present
- médisais first-person imperfect indicative
- médisait imperfect indicative singular
- médisions first-person imperfect indicative
- médisiez imperfect indicative plural
- médisaient imperfect indicative plural
- médîmes first-person historic indicative
- médîtes historic indicative past
- médirent historic indicative past
- médirai first-person future indicative
- médiras future indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce médire?
- /me.diʁ/
- \me.diʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to médire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is médire in French?
médire appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).