terminal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Causing death; not curable and leading to death.

   She was diagnosed with a terminal illness and given six months to live.

2. 2
   noun

   A building at an airport where passengers arrive and depart.

   Terminal 1 is for domestic flights, while Terminal 2 handles international ones.

3. 3
   adj

   At or forming the end of something.

   The terminal stop on this train line is the city centre.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *ter-? Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥der. Proto-Italic *termenos Late Latin terminus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Late Latin -ālis Late Latin terminālisbor. English terminal Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.

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