município
Portuguese, noun/mu.niˈsi.pju/
município is spelled M-U-N-I-C-Í-P-I-O (9 letters) and appears 100 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 986th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Município is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “municipality; county; borough (low-level political subdivision, typically encompassing a town and nearby villages)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “circunscrição territorial em que se exerce o poder jurisdicional de uma vereação”.
What does município mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemunicipality; county; borough (low-level political subdivision, typically encompassing a town and nearby villages)
- 2
masculinemunicipium (town with self-governing rights, whose citizens had Roman citizenship)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. circunscrição territorial em que se exerce o poder jurisdicional de uma vereação 2. concelho 3. menor unidade administrativa de um país
noun: 1. qualquer dos governos municipais
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of município
- municípios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce município?
- Brazil /mu.niˈsi.pju/
- Portugal /mu.niˈsi.pju/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to município
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is município in Portuguese?
município appears 100 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).