Noun: Mittelalter
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Wenn das so weitergeht, fallen wir zurück in finsterstes Mittelalter! (If it goes on like this, we’ll slide back into the deepest dark ages!)
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In dem Laden hängt mir zu viel Mittelalter ab. (There are too many middle-agers hanging out at that place for my taste.)
Nouns inflected like Mittelalter
Methyllithium,
Muschilecken,
Schleckzeug,
Amtsschimmel,
Scandiumoxid,
Schwankschwindel,
Rosinenpicken,
Fahrradfahren,
Bauwesen,
Schritt-Tempo,
Schweigen,
Vinylacetat,
Dreieckshandel,
Söhngeit,
Himmelvater,
Vanadiumpentoxid,
Lithiumhydroxid,
Menschenhandel,
Neuheidentum,
Rubidiumozonid, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle High German mittel alter (“middle age [of life]”), at least since the 16th century also univerbated. By surface analysis, mittel- (“mid, middle”) + Alter (“age”). The historic sense dates from the 18th century and is a calque of New Latin medium aevum, from the idea that it was the interim between Antiquity and Modernity.
Verbs referencing "Mittelalter"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
middelalder, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
mellomalder, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
mellomalder.
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