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Where does “terminated” come from?

Terminated comes from Latin terminatus, past participle of terminare, from terminus meaning boundary or end, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ter- with the sense of crossing or passing through.

terminated (English): simple past tense and past participle of...

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Ancestry of “terminated”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishterminateTo end, especially in an incomplete state; To set...
2Latinterminatusmarked off , bounded, limited; defined, fixed,...
3LatinterminoI mark off , set bounds to; bound, limit; I...
4Latinterminusa boundary, limit, end
5Proto-Indo-Europeanter-tender, weak; young creature
6Italiantermineend, close; limit, term, date, time; term, word

Words derived from “terminated”

  • unterminated
  • nonterminated
  • interminated
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