EuroLex/E/Terminal

terminal

between a user and a computer'
 * Original language: English
 * Original form and meaning: 2 'a terminus for trains etc.', 2a 'aterminus for (un)loading', 2b 'a terminus for buses going to/from an airport', 3 'a departure and arrival building for air passengers, 5 'an apparatus for transmission of messages

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


 * Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.


 * Information on Other Languages: Icelandic: terminal [= English]/thεrmina(t)l], mid/end20c, meaning: 2b, 3, status: restricted use; 5,, status: restricted use: technical < creat útstöð; Romanian: terminal [terminal], 1970s, via French, meaning: 2, 2a, 3, 5, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English (technical); Russian: terminal, mid20c, meaning: 2a, 5, status: restricted use: technical; Bulgarian: terminal, mid20c: meaning: 3, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; end20c: meaning: 5, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (technical); Albanian: terminal, end20c, meaninG: 3, 5, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Greek: terminal, end20c, meaning: 5, status: restricted use: technical = trsl. termatiko;

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