mondial
See also: Mondial
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French mondial, from Latin mundiālis. Compare Middle English mondiall, mundyall (“worldly, temporal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɒndi.əl/
Adjective
mondial (comparative more mondial, superlative most mondial)
- Worldwide, global. [from 20th c.]
- 1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 69:
- Richard would even discuss her latest column, without in any way averring – even to himself – that what she wrote had all the mondial impact of a used cotton bud falling on to a damp towel.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French, originally referring to the worldly (material) as distinct from the spiritual. Compare Ecclesiastical Latin mundialis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mondial (feminine mondiale, masculine plural mondiaux, feminine plural mondiales)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “mondial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Adjective
mondial
- worldly (physical rather than spiritual)
Descendants
Occitan
Pronunciation
Audio (Languedoc): (file)
Adjective
mondial m (feminine singular mondiala, masculine plural mondials, feminine plural mondialas)
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
mondial m or n (feminine singular mondială, masculine plural mondiali, feminine and neuter plural mondiale)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | mondial | mondială | mondiali | mondiale | |||
| definite | mondialul | mondiala | mondialii | mondialele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | mondial | mondiale | mondiali | mondiale | |||
| definite | mondialului | mondialei | mondialilor | mondialelor | ||||