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English

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin terminus (boundary, limit). Doublet of term, Terminus, and termon.

Pronunciation

Noun

terminus (plural termini or terminuses)

  1. The end or final point of something.
  2. The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located.
    • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 171:
      My brother supposes they must have filled outside London, for at that time the furious terror of the people had rendered the central termini impossible.
    • 1951 June, “British Railways Summer Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 419:
      The arrangement for certain long-distance trains to call at suburban stations (saving passengers the trouble of journeying to the termini), which proved popular last year, is being extended.
    • 1991, “China”, in All-Asia Guide, volume III, Hongkong: Review Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 45:
      Wuhan is the terminus for cruises to the Yanzi River gorges.
    • 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 49:
      Thirty-five years ago, many journeys around London meant having to pass through the centre of the capital. That's no longer the case, which takes real pressure off the city's termini as well as underground routes such as the Circle Line.
  3. A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary.

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Descendants

  • French: terminus
    • Romanian: terminus

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English terminus, from Latin terminus. Doublet of terme.

Pronunciation

Noun

terminus m (plural terminus)

  1. (transport) terminus

Descendants

Further reading

Indonesian

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Etymology

Borrowed from English terminus, from Latin terminus (boundary, limit).

Pronunciation

Noun

terminus (plural terminus-terminus)

  1. (rail transport) terminus: the end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located

Further reading

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *termenos, from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (boundary). Cognate with Ancient Greek τέρμα (térma, a goal), τέρμων (térmōn, a border). Synchronically a thematicized variant of the rare synonym termen, which was directly inherited from the PIE word, and so equivalent to termen +‎ -us. The synonym termō is, like Ancient Greek τέρμων (térmōn), from the collective form *térmō.

Pronunciation

Noun

terminus m (genitive terminī); second declension

  1. a boundary, limit, end
    Synonyms: fīnis, līmes, mēta, dēfīnītiō, granicia
  2. (Medieval Latin) word, term, definition
    Synonyms: verbum, dēfīnītiō
  3. (Medieval Latin) due date, a time to convene
    Synonyms: diēs, conventus
  4. (Medieval Latin) mode, wise, fashion, manner
    Synonyms: ratiō, modus, fōrma
  5. term or period of time (as for example of probation)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative terminus terminī
genitive terminī terminōrum
dative terminō terminīs
accusative terminum terminōs
ablative terminō terminīs
vocative termine terminī

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Further reading

  • terminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • terminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "terminus", 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)
  • terminus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the empire reaches to the ends of the world: imperium orbis terrarum terminis definitur
    • to set bounds to a thing, limit it: terminis circumscribere aliquid
  • terminus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • terminus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French terminus, from English terminus, from Latin terminus.

Noun

terminus n (uncountable)

  1. terminus (the end point of a transportation system)

Declension

Declension of terminus
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative terminus terminusul
genitive-dative terminus terminusului
vocative terminusule