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==Etymology==
− It is an English coinage, first spelled mediaeval, from Latin medium, middle, and aevum, age, with the suffix [[-al]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) after New Latin medium aevum, the Middle Ages,^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998)^(Cresswell 2021) a learned phrase developed from the much earlier English the Middle Ages (early 17th century).^(Cresswell 2021)
+ It is an English coinage, first spelled mediaeval, from [[la|medium]], middle, and [[m|la|aevum]], age, with the suffix [[-al]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) after New Latin medium aevum, the Middle Ages,^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998)^(Cresswell 2021) a learned phrase developed from the much earlier English the Middle Ages (early 17th century).^(Cresswell 2021)
==Earliest recorded meaning==