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/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• 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

• municipal borough
• municipal corporation
• municipal engineering
• municipal flag
• municipal incorporation
• municipality
• municipal president

 

Related terms

• munificence
• munificent
• remunerate
• remuneration

 

Translations

pertaining to city

• Arabic: مَدَنِيّ (madaniyy)
• Aragonese: monezipal
• Asturian: municipal (ast)
• 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 (gl)
• 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: mūnicipālis
• Macedonian: градски (gradski)
• Malay: perbandaran (ms)
• Norwegian: kommunal, kommune-
• Persian: شهری (fa) (šahri)
• Polish: miejski (pl), municypalny (pl)
• Portuguese: municipal (pt)
• Punjabi: ਨਾਗਰਿਕ (nāgrik)
• 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)
• Swedish: kommun-
• Tajik: шаҳрӣ (šahrī)
• Ukrainian: міськи́й (uk) (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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “municipal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

municipal m or f (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, 2024
• “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.

French

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ni.si.pal/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

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

1. municipal

Derived terms

• municipalité

Related terms

• municipe

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mūnicipālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.ni.siˈpaw/ [mu.ni.siˈpaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.ni.siˈpal/ [mu.ni.siˈpaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.ni.siˈpal/ [mu.ni.siˈpaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.ni.siˈpa.li/

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

Adjective

municipal m or f (plural municipais)

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

Derived terms

• municipalmente

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French municipal.

Adjective

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

1. municipal

Declension

Declension of municipal

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	municipal		municipală	municipali	municipale
	definite	municipalul		municipala	municipalii	municipalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	municipal		municipale	municipali	municipale
	definite	municipalului		municipalei	municipalilor	municipalelor

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin municipālis.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

municipal m or f (masculine and feminine plural municipales)

1. municipal

Derived terms

• junta municipal
• municipalmente
• presidente municipal
• término municipal

 

Related terms

• municipalidad
• municipio

 

Further reading

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