FromLatinmunicipium.Doublet ofmunicipio.

• (UK)IPA^(key):/mjuː.nɪˈsɪ.pɪ.əm/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˌmju.nəˈsɪ.pi.əm/
• Hyphenation:mu‧nic‧i‧pi‧um

municipium (pluralmunicipia)

1. (historical) An ancient Romantown orcity.

Frommūniceps(“citizen (of a municipality)”) +‎-ium.

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

mūnicipium n (genitivemūnicipiīormūnicipī);second declension

1. township
2. municipality,town

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “municipium”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “municipium”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “municipium”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “municipium”, inRichard Stillwell et al., editor (1976),The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Borrowed fromLatinmūnicipium, used in Swedish since 1832.

municipium n

1. amunicipality, a small, incorporatedtown (in ancient Rome or in Sweden c. 1862-1971)

• municip
• municipalsamhälle

• municipal

• municipium inSvenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (9th ed., 5th printing, 1954)
• municipium inSvenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (10th ed., 1st printing, 1973)
• municipium inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Municipium inNordisk familjebok (2nd ed., 1913)