English → Latin
“terminate” in Latin
conclūdōto conclude, finish; to define; to shut up, confine, containfīniōto finish, terminate; to set, appoint; to limit, boundcōnstituōto place, put, locate, lay; to set up, establish, constitute, found; to build, erect, constructcapiōto take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm; to take on, adopt; to hold, to containdēsinōto leave off, give over, give up; to cease, desist, stop; to stop, end, close, make an endfīnisend; limit, border, bound boundary, frontier; boundaries, bounds, frontiers; by extension, territory, region, landsterminōto mark off (by boundaries), set bounds to; bound, limit; to define, fix, determine, circumscribe; to close, finish, endcadōto fall, to fall out; to fall in battle, die, be slain, fall so as to be unable to rise; to be frustrated, fail, to be o
The English word terminate itself goes back to Latin terminus, through terminātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
terminate
Transitively, terminare aliquid (to put a limit to anything with regard to place): concludere (e.g., a letter): finire (to end): finem facere alicujus or alicui rei: finem alicui rei imponere, constituere (to put an end to). To terminate his speech, finem dicendi facere: perorare: ad finem or ad exitum adducere aliquid (to bring anything to a conclusion = to accomplish it): conficere: transigere aliquid (to settle): componere aliquid (to terminate amicably): finem or modum imponere alicui rei; finem statuere or constituere alicui rei (to put an end to anything, with regard to duration): to terminate a war, pacem facere (not concludere): to terminate a business, expedire negotium (to settle it): profligare negotium (by a violent exertion): to terminate a dispute, etc., controversiam componere or dirimere (dirimere, also of terminating anything by sudden intervention; nox proelium diremit). [Vid: END.]
Intransitively, finem habere or capere: desinere (to cease): finem or exitum habere (of time or an event): terminari (of space): cadere or excidere in (to end in such a letter or syllable; of words): to terminate in a long syllable, longa syllaba terminari; cadere or excidere in longam syllabam: the matter is not yet terminated, res nondum finem invenit: to terminate badly, foede finire. Vid :, also, END, CEASE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for terminate?
- The usual Latin words for “terminate” are conclūdō, fīniō, cōnstituō; also capiō, dēsinō, fīnis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.