English

abterminal

From ab- + terminal.

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo ‘off, away’

English ab-

Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ ‘boundary, end’

Proto-Italic *termn̥ ‘boundary stone’

Proto-Italic *term(e)nos ‘boundary stone’

Latin terminus ‘a bound, boundary, limit, end’

Late Latin terminalis ‘pertaining to a boundary or to the end,…’

Today it means

adj Away from the end and towards the centre

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / abterminal