município
See also: municipio
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin mūnicipium. By surface analysis, munícipe + -io.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: mu‧ni‧cí‧pi‧o
Noun edit
município m (plural municípios)
- (government) municipality; county; borough (low-level political subdivision, typically encompassing a town and nearby villages)
- Synonym: (Portugal) concelho
- (Ancient Rome) municipium (town with self-governing rights, whose citizens had Roman citizenship)