different between utility vs municipal

English

Etymology

utile +? -ity, from Old French utilitet (“usefulness”), from Latin ?tilit?s, from uti (“to use”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju??t?l.?.ti/
• Rhymes: -?l?ti

Noun

utility (countable and uncountable, plural utilities)

1. The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
2. Something that is useful.
3. (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
4. (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
5. (business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or, the securities of such a provider.
6. (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.

   I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.

   • 1982, InfoWorld (volume 4, number 10, page 35)

     The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.

7. (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.

Antonyms

• disutility
• inutility

Derived terms

• beautility
• multiutility
• utilitarian

Translations

Adjective

utility

1. Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.

   utility line; utility bill

2. Designating of a room in a house or building where mechanical equipment is installed; such as a furnace, water tank/heater, circuit breaker, and/or air conditioning unit; and often equipped with hookups for laundry equipment (washer/dryer).

   utility room

Synonyms

• (state of being useful): usefulness, note
• See also Thesaurus:utility

Spanish

Noun

utility m (plural utilitys)

1. (sports) utility

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French municipal, from Latin m?nicip?lis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from m?niceps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from m?nus (“duty”) + capi? (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mju?n?s?p?l/
• Hyphenation: mu?ni?ci?pal

Adjective

municipal (comparative more municipal, superlative most municipal)

1. Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
2. Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation.

Synonyms

• civic

Derived terms

• municipality

Related terms

Translations

Noun

municipal (plural municipals)

1. (finance) A financial instrument issued by a municipality.

Further reading

• municipal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• municipal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin municipalis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /mu.ni.si?pal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

municipal (masculine and feminine plural municipals)

1. municipal

Derived terms

• municipalitat

Related terms

• municipi

Further reading

• “municipal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “municipal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “municipal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “municipal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin municipalis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from municeps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from munus (“duty”) + capi? (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ni.si.pal/

Adjective

municipal (feminine singular municipale, masculine plural municipaux, feminine plural municipales)

1. municipal

Derived terms

• municipalité

Further reading

• “municipal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Etymology

município +? -al

Adjective

municipal m or f (plural municipais, comparable)

1. municipal
2. town (attributive)
3. civic

Romanian

Etymology

From French municipal

Adjective

municipal m or n (feminine singular municipal?, masculine plural municipali, feminine and neuter plural municipale)

1. municipal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin municip?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /muni?i?pal/, [mu.ni.?i?pal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /munisi?pal/, [mu.ni.si?pal]

Adjective

municipal (plural municipales)

1. municipal

Related terms

• municipio
• municipalidad

Further reading

• “municipal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.