municipal

Borrowed from French municipal, from Latin mūnicipālis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from mūniceps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from mūnus (“duty”) + capiō (“to take”).

• IPA^(key): /mjuˈnɪsɪpəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: mu‧ni‧ci‧pal

municipal (comparative more municipal, superlative most municipal)

1. Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
2. Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation.

• civic

municipal (plural municipals)

1. (finance) A financial instrument issued by a municipality.
   • 2008 April 21, Julie Connelly, “Muni Bonds, Safe With High Yields”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “This might be the last great opportunity for preretirement baby boomers to buy municipals at such attractive levels,” said Janet Fiorenza, head of municipal fixed income at Lehman Brothers Asset Management.

• “municipal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “municipal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin municipālis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [mu.ni.siˈpal]
• Rhymes: -al

• Audio (Central):

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municipal m or f (masculine and feminine plural municipals)

1. municipal

• municipalitat

• municipi

• “municipal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “municipal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “municipal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “municipal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin mūnicipālis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from mūniceps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from mūnus (“duty”) + capiō (“to take”).

• IPA^(key): /my.ni.si.pal/

• Audio:

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municipal (feminine municipale, masculine plural municipaux, feminine plural municipales)

1. municipal

• municipalité

• municipe

• “municipal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Learned borrowing from Latin mūnicipālis.^[1][2] By surface analysis, município +‎ -al.

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: mu‧ni‧ci‧pal

municipal m or f (plural municipais)

1. municipal
2. (relational) town
3. civic

• municipalmente

Borrowed from French municipal.

municipal m or n (feminine singular municipală, masculine plural municipali, feminine and neuter plural municipale)

1. municipal

From Latin municipālis.

• IPA^(key): /muniθiˈpal/ [mu.ni.θiˈpal] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /munisiˈpal/ [mu.ni.siˈpal] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mu‧ni‧ci‧pal

municipal m or f (masculine and feminine plural municipales)

1. municipal

• “municipal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024