Etymology
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Borrowed from French municipalité (Edmund Burke ), from municipal + -ité , from Latin municipalis , from municipium ( “ free city , township ” ) , from municeps ( “ citizen of a free city or township ” ) , from mūnus ( “ duty , service ” ) + -ceps ( “ taker , catcher ” ) . Equivalent to municipal + -ity .
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( UK ) IPA (key ) : /mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/
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municipality (plural municipalities )
A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough , city, or incorporated town or village.
The governing body of such a district.
1918 , W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell , chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp , Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company , →OCLC :From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality , all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
( politics ) In Mexico and other Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, second-level administrative divisions that may house one or more cities or towns whose head of government may be called mayors or, in Mexico, municipal presidents .
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a district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts
Afrikaans: munisipaliteit (af)
Albanian: bashki (sq) f ( urban ) , komunë (sq) f ( rural )
Arabic: بَلَدِيَّة f ( baladiyya )
Armenian: մունիցիպալիտետ (hy) ( municʻipalitet )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܪܟܘܬܐ ( krkwtā )
Azerbaijani: bələdiyyə
Basque: udalerri (eu)
Belarusian: муніцыпалітэ́т m ( municypalitét )
Bengali: পৌরসভা (bn) ( pōurśobha )
Bikol Central: banwa , banwaan (bcl)
Bulgarian: община́ f ( obštiná )
Catalan: municipi (ca)
Central Franconian: Jemeinde
Central Mazahua: texjñiñi
Chinese:
Mandarin: 直轄市 / 直辖市 (zh) ( zhíxiáshì )
Czech: obec (cs) f
Danish: kommune (da) c
Dutch: gemeente (nl)
Estonian: munitsipaliteet , linnavalitsus
Extremaduran: monicípiu
Faroese: kommuna f
Finnish: kunta (fi)
French: municipalité (fr)
Galician: municipio (gl) m , concello (gl) m
Georgian: მუნიციპალიტეტი ( municiṗaliṭeṭi )
German: Gemeinde (de) f , Munizipalität (de) f
Greek: δήμος (el) m ( dímos )
Hebrew: עירייה (he) f
Hindi: नगरपालिका (hi) f ( nagarpālikā )
Hungarian: ( settlement ) település (hu) , ( concerning its physical or legal extent ) közigazgatási terület , ( hyponyms: city/town and village ) város (hu) , község (hu)
Icelandic: sveitarfélag n
Inari Sami: kieldâ
Irish: bardasacht f , cathair bhardais f , baile bardais m
Italian: comune (it) m , municipalità (it) f
Japanese: 自治体 (ja) ( じちたい, jichitai )
Kazakh: муниципалитет ( munisipalitet )
Khmer: ក្រុង (km) ( krong ) ( city )
Korean: 자치체(自治體) ( jachiche )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شارەوانی (ckb) ( şarewanî )
Northern Kurdish: şaredarî (ku)
Kyrgyz: муниципалитет ( munitsipalitet )
Latin: mūnicipium (la) n
Latvian: municipalitāte f
Lithuanian: savivaldybė (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Gemeng (lb) f , Municipalitéit f
Macedonian: општина f ( opština )
Mòcheno: gamoa' f
Norman: meunicipalité f ( Jersey )
Northern Sami: suohkan , gielda
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kommune (no) m
Nynorsk: kommune m
Persian: شهرداری (fa) ( šahrdâri )
Polish: gmina (pl) f
Portuguese: município (pt) m , comuna (pt) f
Romanian: municipalitate (ro) f
Russian: муниципалите́т (ru) m ( municipalitét ) , комму́на (ru) f ( kommúna ) ( e.g. in Sweden ) , общи́на (ru) f ( obščína )
Scots: municipality
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: о̏пћина f , муниципалитет m
Roman: ȍpćina f , municipalitet m
Slovak: obec (sk) f
Slovene: občina f
Southern Sami: tjïelte
Spanish: municipio (es)
Swahili: manispaa
Swedish: kommun (sv) c
Tagalog: munisipalidad
Tajik: мунитсипалитет ( munitsipalitet ) , шаҳрдори ( šahrdori )
Tatar: муниципалитет ( munitsipalitet )
Thai: เทศบาล (th) ( têet-sà-baan )
Turkish: belediye (tr)
Ukrainian: муніципаліте́т m ( municypalitét )
Urdu: بلدیہ m ( baldiya )
Uzbek: munitsipalitet (uz)
Vietnamese: khu tự quản
Welsh: bwrdeistref f
the governing body of such a district