Meanings
mondial1
comparative more mondial · superlative most mondial · alternative mundial
- Worldwide, global.First known use 20th c.
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.
1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 69
Mondial2
- uncountableAn international auxiliary language created by Swedish school principal Helge Heimer in the 1940s.
Origin
mondial · adjective
- Latinmundiālis
- Frenchmondial
- Englishmondial
From French mondial, from Latin mundiālis. Compare Middle English mondiall, mundyall (“worldly, temporal”).
Full word history & related roots →Mondial · proper noun
- Frenchmondial“worldwide, global”
- EnglishMondial
Likely from French mondial (“worldwide, global”).
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