mondial
See also: Mondial
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From French mondial, from Latin mundiālis.
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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.
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Inherited from Middle French, originally referring to the worldly (material) as distinct from the spiritual. Compare Ecclesiastical Latin mundialis.
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mondial (feminine mondiale, masculine plural mondiaux, feminine plural mondiales)
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- “mondial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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mondial
- worldly (physical rather than spiritual)
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Audio (Languedocien) (file)
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mondial m (feminine singular mondiala, masculine plural mondials, feminine plural mondialas)
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mondial m or n (feminine singular mondială, masculine plural mondiali, feminine and neuter plural mondiale)
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Declension of mondial
| 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 | |||