terminus

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːmɪnəs/
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• General-American: /ˈtər.mə.nəs/
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• General-American: /ˈtər.mɪ.nəs/
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Learned borrowing from Latin terminus (“a boundary or border, a limit or point”). Doublet of terminus and term.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh2-? 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 terminuslbor. English terminus Learned borrowing from Latin terminus (“boundary, limit”). Doublet of term, Terminus, and termon.

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: крайна точка (krajna točka) — end or final point
• Finnish: päätepiste — end or final point
• Hungarian: végpont — end or final point
• Polish: punkt końcowy — end or final point
• Spanish: término — end or final point
• Armenian: վերջնակետ (verǰnaket) — end point of a transport system
• Bulgarian: крайна спирка (krajna spirka) — end point of a transport system
• Chinese Mandarin: 終點站 /终点站 (zhōngdiǎnzhàn) — end point of a transport system
• Danish: endestation — end point of a transport system
• Dutch: eindpunt — end point of a transport system
• Dutch: eindstation — end point of a transport system
• Esperanto: finstacio — end point of a transport system
• Finnish: pääteasema — end point of a transport system
• Finnish: päätepysäkki — end point of a transport system
• Finnish: päättäri — end point of a transport system
• French: terminus — end point of a transport system
• German: Endstation — end point of a transport system
• Hungarian: végállomás — end point of a transport system
• Indonesian: terminus — end point of a transport system
• Italian: capolinea — end point of a transport system
• Japanese: 終点 (shūten) — end point of a transport system
• Korean: 종점 (jongjeom) — end point of a transport system
• Maltese: venda — end point of a transport system
• Norwegian Bokmål: endestasjon — end point of a transport system
• Norwegian Nynorsk: endestasjon — end point of a transport system
• Polish: przystanek końcowy — end point of a transport system
• Polish: stacja końcowa — end point of a transport system
• Romanian: terminus — end point of a transport system
• Swedish: slutstation — end point of a transport system
• Swedish: ändstation — end point of a transport system
• Swedish: ändhållplats — end point of a transport system
• Turkish: son durak — end point of a transport system
• Maltese: qasma — boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary
• Polish: granica — boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary