terminator

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin terminātor from the verb terminō; synchronically analyzable as terminate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜːm.ɪ.neɪ.tə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝm.ɪ.neɪ.tɚ/
• Hyphenation: ter‧mi‧na‧tor

Noun

terminator (plural terminators)

1. One who terminates or ends something.
2. (biochemistry) A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
3. (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
4. (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a planet.
5. (science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans (after the 1984 film The Terminator).

Synonyms

• (astronomy): grey line, separatrix (the general term for such lines)

Translations

one who terminates

• Finnish: lopettaja, tuhoaja (fi)
• Portuguese: terminador m

• Russian: терминатор (ru) (terminator)

a DNA sequence

• Portuguese: terminador m

• Russian: терминатор (ru) m (terminator)

an electrical device

• Finnish: päätevastus
• French: terminateur (fr)

• Japanese: ターミネータ (tāminētā), 終端器 (shūtanki)
• Russian: терминатор (ru) m (terminator)

the line between the day side and the night side

• Finnish: terminaattori (fi)
• French: terminateur (fr)

• Portuguese: terminador m
• Russian: терминатор (ru) m (terminator)

an AI machine in science fiction

• Arabic: مُبِيد‏‎ m (mubīd)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 終結者 (zh), 终结者 (zh) (zhōngjiézhě), 殲滅者, 歼灭者 (jiānmièzhě), (Taiwan) 魔鬼終結者, 魔鬼终结者 (móguǐ zhōngjiézhě)

• German: Terminator (de) m
• Greek: εξολοθρευτής (el) m (exolothreftís)

• Hungarian: terminátor
• Japanese: ターミネーター (tāminētā)
• Marathi: टर्मिनेटर m (ṭarmineṭara)
• Portuguese: exterminador (pt) m
• Russian: термина́тор (ru) m (terminátor)

Anagrams

• antitremor

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Latin

Verb

terminātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of terminō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of terminō

References

• terminator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “terminator”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “terminator” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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Polish

Noun

terminator m pers

1. (obsolete) apprentice

Declension

declension of terminator

	singular	plural
nominative	terminator	terminatorzy
genitive	terminatora	terminatorów
dative	terminatorowi	terminatorom
accusative	terminator	terminatorów
instrumental	terminatorem	terminatorami
locative	terminatorze	terminatorach
vocative	terminatorze	terminatorzy