municeps

Latin

Etymology

From mūnus (“duty; service”) +‎ -ceps (“taker”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.ni.keps/, [ˈmuːnɪkɛps̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ni.t͡ʃeps/, [ˈmuːnit͡ʃeps]

Noun

mūniceps m or f (genitive mūnicipis); third declension

1. citizen (of a municipium)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mūniceps	mūnicipēs
genitive	mūnicipis	mūnicipum
dative	mūnicipī	mūnicipibus
accusative	mūnicipem	mūnicipēs
ablative	mūnicipe	mūnicipibus
vocative	mūniceps	mūnicipēs

Derived terms

• mūnicipālis
• mūnicipātiō
• mūnicipātus
• mūnicipium

References

• “municeps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “municeps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• municeps in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• municeps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “municeps”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “municeps”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin