terminus

Etymology

From Latin terminus (“boundary, limit”).

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.
3. A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary.

Anagrams

• muntries, numerist, run times, run-times, runtimes, unmiters, unmitres

Etymology

From English terminus, an unadapted borrowing from Latin terminus. Doublet of terme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛʁ.mi.nys/

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Noun

terminus m (uncountable)

1. terminus

References

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

Alternative forms

• (uncommon) termen
• (collateral form) termō

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“boundary”), perhaps from *terh₂- (“pass through”). Cognate of Ancient Greek τέρμα (térma, “a goal”) and τέρμων (térmōn, “a border”); perhaps cognate of Sanskrit तरति (tar-, “to overcome”), Latin trāns (“through, across, over”) and intrō (“I enter, I go into”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈter.mi.nus/, [ˈtɛr.mɪ.nʊs]

Noun

terminus m (genitive terminī); second declension

1. a boundary, limit, end

References

• 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, 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray