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/
• 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

• municipality

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:

     “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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• municipal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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

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

municipal (masculine and feminine plural municipals)

1. municipal

• municipalitat

• municipi

• “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.

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”) + capere (“to take”).

• IPA^(key): /my.ni.si.pal/

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

1. municipal

• municipalité

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

município +‎ -al

municipal m or f (plural municipais, comparable)

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

From Latin municipālis.

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

municipal (plural municipales)

1. municipal

• municipio
• municipalidad

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