municipality
/mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/ · noun
Meaning
- A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
- The governing body of such a district.
- In the Philippines and in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, second-level administrative divisions that may house one or more cities or towns whose head of government may be called mayors or, in Mexico, municipal presidents.
Etymology / origin
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.
- municipalis(Latin)→
- municipalité(French)→
- *keh₂p-(ine-pro)→
- municipality (English)
- Relations: root, bor, der
Related words
Descendant words
- municipality(Scots) (bor)
- manispaa(Swahili) (bor)
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