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8-letter words (4 found)

MUNTRIES,TERMINUS,UNMITERS,UNMITRES,

7-letter words (24 found)

ENTRISM,MINSTER,MINTERS,MINUETS,MINUTER,MINUTES,MISTUNE,MUNITES,MUNSTER,MUNTERS,MUNTRIE,MUREINS,MURINES,MUSTIER,MUTINES,NEURISM,NUTSIER,REMINTS,STERNUM,TRIUNES,UNITERS,UNMITER,UNMITRE,UNTRIMS,

6-letter words (54 found)

ERINUS,ESTRIN,ESTRUM,INERTS,INSERT,INSURE,INTERS,INTUSE,INURES,ITERUM,MERITS,MINERS,MINTER,MINUET,MINUTE,MISTER,MITERS,MITRES,MUNITE,MUNTER,MUREIN,MURINE,MURTIS,MUSTER,MUTINE,NITERS,NITRES,REMINT,REMITS,RUMENS,RUSINE,RUTINS,SINTER,SMITER,STRINE,STUMER,SUITER,TENUIS,TIMERS,TRIENS,TRINES,TRIUNE,TRUISM,TUNERS,TUNIER,TURMES,UNITER,UNITES,UNREST,UNTIES,UNTRIM,URINES,URITES,URSINE,

5-letter words (111 found)

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4-letter words (125 found)

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3-letter words (71 found)

EMS,EMU,ENS,ERM,ERN,ERS,EST,INS,IRE,ISM,ITS,MEN,MES,MET,MEU,MIR,MIS,MUN,MUS,MUT,NET,NIE,NIM,NIS,NIT,NUR,NUS,NUT,REI,REM,REN,RES,RET,RIM,RIN,RIT,RUE,RUM,RUN,RUT,SEI,SEN,SER,SET,SIM,SIN,SIR,SIT,SRI,SUE,SUI,SUM,SUN,SUR,TEN,TES,TIE,TIN,TIS,TUI,TUM,TUN,UME,UMS,UNI,UNS,URE,URN,USE,UTE,UTS,

2-letter words (23 found)

EM,EN,ER,ES,ET,IN,IS,IT,ME,MI,MU,NE,NU,RE,SI,ST,TE,TI,UM,UN,UR,US,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 413 words from terminus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of terminus

terminus

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin terminus (“boundary, limit”). Doublet of term, Terminus, and termon.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɜːmɪnəs/

Noun

terminus (plural termini or terminuses)

  1. The end or final point of something.
  2. The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located.
  3. A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary.

Antonyms

  • origin

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • → French: terminus
    • → Romanian: terminus

Translations

Anagrams

  • minuters, muntries, muster in, numerist, run times, run-times, runtimes, unmiters, unmitres

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English terminus, from Latin terminus. Doublet of terme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛʁ.mi.nys/

Noun

terminus m (plural terminus)

  1. (transport) terminus

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Romanian: terminus

Further reading

  • “terminus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Alternative forms

  • termen (uncommon)
  • termō (collateral form)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *termenos, from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“boundary”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τέρμα (térma, “a goal”), τέρμων (térmōn, “a border”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈter.mi.nus/, [ˈt̪ɛrmɪnʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈter.mi.nus/, [ˈt̪ɛrminus]

Noun

terminus m (genitive terminī); second declension

  1. a boundary, limit, end
    Synonyms: fīnis, līmes, mēta, dēfīnītiō, granicia
  2. (Medieval Latin) word, term, definition
    Synonyms: verbum, dēfīnītiō
  3. (Medieval Latin) due date, a time to convene
    Synonyms: diēs, conventus
  4. (Medieval Latin) mode, wise, fashion, manner
    Synonyms: ratiō, modus, fōrma

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

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Descendants

Further reading

  • “terminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “terminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • terminus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • terminus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “terminus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “terminus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French terminus, from English terminus, from Latin terminus.

Noun

terminus n (uncountable)

  1. terminus (the end point of a transportation system)

Declension


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