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medieval

Portuguese, adjective/me.d͡ʒi.eˈvaw/

medieval is spelled M-E-D-I-E-V-A-L (8 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,139th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Medieval is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “medieval” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “da Idade Média”.

What does medieval mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. da Idade Média

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of medieval

  • medievais plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce medieval?

  • Brazil /me.d͡ʒi.eˈvaw/
  • Brazil [me.d͡ʒi.eˈvaʊ̯]
  • Brazil /me.d͡ʒjeˈvaw/

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

English words that translate to medieval

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

How common is medieval in Portuguese?

medieval appears 6.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.

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

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