Borrowed fromSpanishmunicipio.Doublet ofmunicipium.

municipio (pluralmunicipios)

1. Amunicipality in variousLatin American countries.

FromLatinmunicipium.

• IPA^(key):/mu.niˈt͡ʃi.pjo/
• Rhymes:-ipjo
• Hyphenation:mu‧ni‧cì‧pio

municipio m (pluralmunicipi)

1. town council
2. town hall
3. register office (or other local government offices)

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):[muː.nɪˈkɪ.pi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):[mu.niˈt͡ʃiː.pi.o]

mūnicipiō

1. dative/ablativesingular ofmūnicipium

FromLatinmunicipium.

• IPA^(key):(Spain)/muniˈθipjo/[mu.niˈθi.pjo]
• IPA^(key):(Latin America, Philippines)/muniˈsipjo/[mu.niˈsi.pjo]
• Rhymes:-ipjo
• Syllabification:mu‧ni‧ci‧pio

municipio m (pluralmunicipios)

1. municipality

• “municipio”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10