‖ municipium Rom. Antiq.
(mjuːnɪˈsɪpɪəm)
Pl. municipia.
[L. mūnicipium, f. mūnicip-, mūniceps: see municipal.]
A city whose citizens had the privileges of Roman citizens.
| 1720 Strype Stow's Surv. i. i. 7/1 Nor is there any Reason to think the Romans built the City of London where there was neither a Colony nor a Municipium. 1727 Lardner Wks. (1838) I. 79 Municipia were towns, or cities, which had the citizenship of Rome bestowed upon them, and yet still lived according to their own laws and constitutions. 1861 Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. 184 A Roman colonia or municipium had consisted pretty generally of two main classes, the servile, and the free, who might by courtesy be called the self-governing. |