Where does “terminus” come from?

terminus (Medieval Latin) comes from Proto-Italic termenos, from Proto-Indo-European térmn̥ — boundary, end.

terminus (Medieval Latin): a boundary, limit, end

Definitions

  1. a boundary, limit, end

Ancestry of “terminus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italictermenos—
2Proto-Indo-Europeantérmn̥boundary, end

Words derived from “terminus”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European térmn̥ →Every word from Proto-Italic termenos →