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jmdict 1424700 Active (id: 2356841)
中世史
ちゅうせいし
1. [n]
▶ medieval history
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 1424690 中世 1. Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times



History:
2. A 2026-01-08 01:10:16  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I was brought up using mediaeval, but I guess we can drop it.
1. A* 2026-01-07 18:45:06  Sombrero1
  Refs:
Daijs

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=medieval,mediaeval&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

Wiktionary calls mediaeval an "old spelling".

.
  Comments:
Changing to way more common spelling.
I don't think we should have both. We usually have spelling variants listed if they're both common, like with BrE AmE differences. This isn't the case here
  Diff:
@@ -12 +12,2 @@
-<gloss>mediaeval history</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="1424690">中世</xref>
+<gloss>medieval history</gloss>

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