municipium

English

Etymology

From Latin municipium.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /mjuː.nɪˈsɪ.pɪ.əm/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˌmju.nəˈsɪ.pi.əm/
  • Hyphenation: mu‧nic‧i‧pi‧um

Noun

municipium (plural municipia)

  1. (historical) An Ancient Roman town or city.

Latin

Etymology

From mūniceps (citizen (of a municipality)) + -ium.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /muː.niˈki.pi.um/, [muː.nɪˈkɪ.pi.ũ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mu.niˈt͡ʃi.pi.um/, [mu.niˈt͡ʃiː.pi.um]

Noun

mūnicipium n (genitive mūnicipiī or mūnicipī); second declension

  1. township
  2. municipality, town

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mūnicipium mūnicipia
Genitive mūnicipiī
mūnicipī1
mūnicipiōrum
Dative mūnicipiō mūnicipiīs
Accusative mūnicipium mūnicipia
Ablative mūnicipiō mūnicipiīs
Vocative mūnicipium mūnicipia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • municipium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • municipium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • municipium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • municipium in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūnicipium, used in Swedish since 1832.

Noun

municipium n

  1. a municipality, a small, incorporated town (in ancient Rome or in Sweden c. 1862-1971)

Declension

Declension of municipium 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative municipium municipiet municipier municipierna
Genitive municipiums municipiets municipiers municipiernas

Synonyms

References

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