The story
- Latin · derived frommunicipalis
- French · borrowed frommunicipalité
- English todaymunicipality
Borrowed from French municipalité (Edmund Burke), from municipal + -ité, from Latin municipalis, from municipium (“free city, township”), from municeps (“citizen of a free city or township”), from mūnus (“duty, service”) + -ceps (“taker, catcher”). Equivalent to municipal + -ity.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.