municipal

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mjuˈnɪsɪpəl/
• Hyphenation: mu‧ni‧ci‧pal

Adjective

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.

Synonyms

• civic

Derived terms

• municipality

Related terms

• munificence
• munificent
• remunerate
• remuneration

 

Translations

pertaining to city

• Arabic: مَدَنِيّ‎ (madaniyy)
• Aragonese: monezipal
• Asturian: municipal
• Belarusian: гарадскі́ (haradskí), място́вы (mjastóvy), муніцыпа́льны (municypálʹny)
• Bulgarian: гра́дски (bg) (grádski), муниципа́лен (municipálen)
• Catalan: municipal (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 城市的 (zh) (chéngshì de), 市立 (zh) (shìlì)

• Czech: městský (cs) m
• Dutch: gemeentelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: municipa
• Finnish: kunnallis- (fi), kunnan (fi), kunnallinen (fi)
• French: municipal (fr) m
• Galician: municipal
• Georgian: საქალაქო (sakalako), მუნიციპალური (municiṗaluri), თვითმმართველი (tvitmmartveli)
• German: munizipal (de), Stadt- (de)
• Hungarian: községi (hu), városi (hu)
• Icelandic: borgar-, bæjar-, sveitar-
• Ido: municip-ala
• Irish: bardasach
• Italian: civico (it), comunale (it)

• Japanese: 市立 (ja) (しりつ, shiritsu), 都市の (ja) (としの, toshi no)
• Korean: 시립의 (ko) (siribui), 도시의 (ko) (dosiui)
• Latin: municipalis
• Macedonian: градски (gradski)
• Malay: perbandaran
• Norwegian: kommunal, kommune-
• Persian: شهری‎ (fa) (šahri)
• Polish: miejski (pl), municypalny (pl)
• Portuguese: municipal (pt)
• Romanian: municipal (ro)
• Russian: городско́й (ru) (gorodskój), муниципа́льный (ru) (municipálʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гра̀дскӣ

  Roman: gràdskī (sh)

• Slovak: mestský (sk)
• Slovene: mesten
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: měsćański

• Spanish: municipal (es) m or f
• Swedish: kommun-
• Tajik: шаҳрӣ (šahrī)
• Ukrainian: міськи́й (misʹkýj), муніципа́льний (municypálʹnyj)

pertaining to state

Noun

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.

Further reading

• municipal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• municipal in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin municipalis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /mu.ni.siˈpal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

municipal (masculine and feminine plural municipals)

1. municipal

Derived terms

• municipalitat

Related terms

• municipi

Further reading

• “municipal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “municipal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

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French

Etymology

From Latin municipalis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from municeps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from munus (“duty”) + capiō (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ni.si.pal/

Adjective

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

1. municipal

Derived terms

• municipalité

Further reading

• “municipal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Portuguese

Etymology

município +‎ -al

Adjective

municipal m or f (plural municipais, comparable)

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin municipālis.

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /muniθiˈpal/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /munisiˈpal/

Adjective

municipal (plural municipales)

1. municipal

Related terms

• municipio
• municipalidad

Further reading

• “municipal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.