terminus

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Etymology [edit]

From Latin terminus (boundary, limit). From the god Terminus who presided over boundaries.

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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.

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From the Proto-Indo-European *ter- (through) root. Confer Sanskrit तरति (tar-, to overcome), tīrain (a shore, an edge); Ancient Greek τέρμα (a goal) and τέρμων (a border), trāns (through, across, over) and intrō (I enter, I go into).

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terminus (genitive terminī); m, second declension

  1. a boundary, limit, end

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Number Singular Plural
nominative terminus terminī
genitive terminī terminōrum
dative terminō terminīs
accusative terminum terminōs
ablative terminō terminīs
vocative termine terminī

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