English
Uniterm
Blend of unit + term, referring to the use of single words as the basis of the index.
Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ ‘stump’
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Proto-Italic *term(e)nos ‘boundary stone’
Latin terminus ‘a bound’
Old French terme
Middle English terme
English term
The story
Blend of unit + term, referring to the use of single words as the basis of the index.
Today it means
name A subject indexing system having an index based on single words.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Uniterm