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See also: Terminus
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin terminus (“boundary, limit”). Doublet of term, Terminus, and termon.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɜːmɪnəs/
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Noun
terminus (plural termini or terminuses)
- The end or final point of something.
- 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.
- 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.
- A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary.
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Translations
end or final point
end point of a transport system
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from English terminus, from Latin terminus. Doublet of terme.
Pronunciation
Noun
terminus m (invariable)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Romanian: terminus
Further reading
- “terminus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from English terminus, from Latin terminus (“boundary, limit”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /tərˈminus/ [t̪ərˈmi.nʊs]
- Rhymes: -inus
- Syllabification: ter‧mi‧nus
Noun
terminus (plural terminus-terminus)
- (rail transport) terminus: the end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located
Related terms
Further reading
- “terminus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɛr.mɪ.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtɛr.mi.nus]
Noun
terminus m (genitive terminī); second declension
- a boundary, limit, end
- (Medieval Latin) word, term, definition
- (Medieval Latin) due date, a time to convene
- (Medieval Latin) mode, wise, fashion, manner
- term or period of time (as for example of probation)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
- conterminum
- conterminus
- disterminus
- exterminus
- interminus
- terminālis
- terminō
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Descendants
Inherited
Borrowed
- → Bulgarian: те́рмин (términ)
- → Dutch: term, termijn
- → English: terminus
- → French: terminus
- → German: Termin, Terminus
- → Middle Irish: termonn
- → Polish: termin
- → Kashubian: termin
- → Russian: те́рмин (términ), те́рминъ (términ) — pre-1918 spelling
- → Portuguese: término
- → Romanian: terminus, termen
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: término
- → Proto-Brythonic: *terβ̃ɨn
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, 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
- the empire reaches to the ends of the world: imperium orbis terrarum terminis definitur
- “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
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French terminus, from English terminus, from Latin terminus. Doublet of țărm (“shore, bank by the water”).
Noun
terminus n (uncountable)
- terminus (the end point of a transportation system)
Declension
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