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- Late Latin · borrowed fromconterminātus
- English todayconterminate
Borrowed from Late Latin conterminātus, perfect passive participle of conterminō (“to border upon”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from conterminus (“conterminous”), from con- + terminus (“border”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.