terminatio

Latin

Etymology

From terminō (“to finish, end”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛr.mɪˈnaː.ti.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪er.miˈnat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Hyphenation: ter‧mi‧nā‧ti‧ō

Noun

terminātiō f (genitive terminātiōnis); third declension

(grammar) termination (the last part (or morpheme) of a word)
Synonym: exitus m

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	terminātiō	terminātiōnēs
genitive	terminātiōnis	terminātiōnum
dative	terminātiōnī	terminātiōnibus
accusative	terminātiōnem	terminātiōnēs
ablative	terminātiōne	terminātiōnibus
vocative	terminātiō	terminātiōnēs

Descendants

→ English: termination
→ Catalan: terminació
⇒ Italian: terminazióne
→ Old French: terminacion
→ Romanian: terminație
⇒ Spanish: terminación

Further reading

“terminatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“terminatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.