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mérovingien

French, adjective

mérovingien is spelled M-É-R-O-V-I-N-G-I-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 69,707th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mérovingien is a French adjective meaning “Merovingian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Mérovingien is a different word: “Merovingian”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à la dynastie fondée par Mérovée et à l'époque (du Vᵉ au VIIIᵉ siècles) pendant laquelle elle a régné”.

What does mérovingien mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    Merovingian

noun

as Mérovingien
  1. 1

    masculineMerovingian

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

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Relatif à la dynastie fondée par Mérovée et à l'époque (du Vᵉ au VIIIᵉ siècles) pendant laquelle elle a régné.

noun: 1. Membre du lignage de Mérovée.

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 mérovingien

  • mérovingienne feminine
  • mérovingiens masculine plural
  • mérovingiennes feminine plural
  • Mérovingiens plural
  • Mérovingienne feminine

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

English words that translate to mérovingien

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

How common is mérovingien in French?

mérovingien appears about once in every 4 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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