Etymology · Medieval Latin
terminus
3 English words descend from Medieval Latin terminus, most common first.
- terminologyA treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
- alloterminAny of the different realisations of a termineme under a specific domain or environment. For instance, [MORPHOLOGY]_(TERM) is an abstract unit (i.e., termineme) with the meaning of "the study of forms of ..."; however, it gets alloterminalized as "the science of forms of living organisms" under biology, "the study of forms of words" under linguistics, "the general theory of form or formation" under philosophy, and "the science of forms of chemicals" under chemistry.
- terminemeThe smallest unbreakable element of the study of terminology.