different between medieval vs conductus

English

Alternative forms

• (dated) mediaeval
• (archaic) mediæval

Etymology

From French médiéval (“medieval”), from Latin medium (“middle”) + aevum (“age”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?d.i.?i?.v?l/, /?mi?.di.?i?.v?l/, /m?d.?i?.v?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m?d.?i.v?l/, /?m?di.?i.v?l/

Adjective

medieval (comparative more medieval, superlative most medieval)

1. Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
2. Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:
   1. Archaic.
   2. Brutal.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

medieval (plural medievals)

1. Someone living in the Middle Ages.
2. A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).

Translations

Aragonese

Adjective

medieval

1. medieval

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /m?.di.??val/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /m?.di.??bal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /me.di.e?val/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

medieval (masculine and feminine plural medievals)

1. medieval

Derived terms

• grec medieval

Galician

Adjective

medieval m or f (plural medievais)

1. medieval

Portuguese

Adjective

medieval m or f (plural medievais, comparable)

1. medieval

Romanian

Etymology

From French médiéval

Adjective

medieval m or n (feminine singular medieval?, masculine plural medievali, feminine and neuter plural medievale)

1. medieval

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• medioeval

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /medje?bal/, [me.ð?je???al]

Adjective

medieval (plural medievales)

1. medieval

Further reading

• “medieval” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Noun

conductus (plural conducti)

1. (music) A medieval song, normally with a sacred text, often sung in Latin.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon?duk.tus/, [k?n??d??kt??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon?duk.tus/, [k?n??d?ukt?us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of cond?c?.

Participle

conductus (feminine conducta, neuter conductum); first/second-declension participle

1. assembled, collected

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Etymology 2

From cond?c? (“lead, bring together”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

conductus m (genitive conduct?s); fourth declension

1. (rare) contraction (of the body)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• conductus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conductus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conductus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• conductus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.