municipium

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English

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Etymology

From Latin municipium. Doublet of municipio.

Pronunciation

Noun

municipium (plural municipia)

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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mūnicipium n (genitive mūnicipiī or mūnicipī); second declension

  1. township
  2. municipality, town

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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).

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)

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