Where does “videoterminal” come from?
videoterminal (English) comes from English terminal, from French terminal, from Latin terminalis, from Latin Terminus, from Proto-Indo-European ter-, from Italian termine, from Latin terminus, from Proto-Italic termenos — boundary, end.
videoterminal (English): A computer terminal with a screen display
Definitions
- A computer terminal with a screen display
Ancestry of “videoterminal”, step by step
videoterminal traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English terminal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | terminal | A building in an airport where passengers... |
| 2 | French | terminal | terminal |
| 3 | Latin | terminalis | boundary; terminal; final, concluding |
| 4 | Latin | Terminus | the deity presiding over boundaries; a personification of the term terminus |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ter- | tender, weak; young creature |
| 6 | Italian | termine | end, close; limit, term, date, time; term, word |
| 7 | Latin | terminus | a boundary, limit, end |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | termenos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | térmn̥ | boundary, end |