Words that come from Latin terminus

400 words across 27 languages descend from Latin terminus — including terms, term, determine, terrible, determination, terror, tremendous, terrorism.

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English (291)

Latin (31)

Italian (15)

French (13)

Dutch (6)

Hungarian (6)

Middle French (5)

Middle Dutch (4)

Catalan (4)

Proto-Indo-European (3)

Swedish (3)

Ancient Greek (2)

Old Dutch (2)

Czech (2)

Volapük (1)

Ladin (1)

Galician (1)

Polish (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Albanian (1)

Old High German (1)

Armenian (1)

Japanese (1)

Turkish (1)

Icelandic (1)

Arabic (1)