Etymology

municipal

mu·ni·ci·pal
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Today it means: Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government). Full definition →

French municipal ← Latin mūnicipālis
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  1. Latin · derived frommūnicipālis“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”
  2. French · borrowed frommunicipal
  3. English todaymunicipal

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”).

Words from the same roots

Latinmūnicipālis all →

municipality

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