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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥, the same source of Latin terminus (“boundary, limit, end”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tér.ma/ → /ˈter.ma/ → /ˈter.ma/
Noun
τέρμᾰ • (térma) n (genitive τέρμᾰτος); third declension
- end, boundary
- goal round which horses and chariots had to turn at races
- mark set to show how far a quoit was thrown
- (in general) end, limit, bound
- culmination, highest point, goal
- highest power, supremacy
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Descendants
References
- “τέρμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τέρμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τέρμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τέρμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τέρμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τέρμᾰ (térma), from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥. Cognate with Latin terminus (“boundary, limit, end”).
Noun
τέρμα • (térma) n (plural τέρματα)
- conclusion, end, goal
- (athletics, etc) finishing line
- (soccer) goal (the physical entity and what is scored)
Declension
Synonyms
- (aim, end): στόχος m (stóchos)
- (soccer): γκολ n (gkol)
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