Etymology

termer

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Today it means: Someone who is in a certain term Full definition →

English term ← Middle English terme ← Old French terme
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*terh₂-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ter-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*térmn̥
  4. Proto-Italic*termn̥
  5. Proto-Italic*term(e)nos
  6. Latinterminus
  7. Old Frenchterme
  8. Middle Englishterme
  9. Englishterm
  10. English todaytermer

From term + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.