terminatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-?

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *ter-?

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥

Proto-Italic *termn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Proto-Italic *term(e)nos

Latin terminus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin terminō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin terminātiō

From terminō (“to finish, end”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛr.mɪˈnaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ter.miˈnat.t͡si.o]
• Hyphenation: ter‧mi‧nā‧ti‧ō

Noun

terminātiō f (genitive terminātiōnis); third declension

2. (grammar) termination (the last part (or morpheme) of a word)

   Synonym: exitus m

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	terminātiō	terminātiōnēs
genitive	terminātiōnis	terminātiōnum
dative	terminātiōnī	terminātiōnibus
accusative	terminātiōnem	terminātiōnēs
ablative	terminātiōne	terminātiōnibus
vocative	terminātiō	terminātiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: termination
• → Catalan: terminació
• ⇒ Italian: terminazióne
• → Old French: terminacion
• → Portuguese: terminação
• → Romanian: terminație
• ⇒ Spanish: terminación

Further reading

• “terminatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “terminatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.