Etymograph

English

extraterminal

From extra- + terminal.

Formed from extra- + terminal

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs ‘out’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros

Proto-Italic *eksteros

Latin exter ‘being on the outside’

Latin extrā ‘outside, except, beyond’

English extra-

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,…’

English terminal

Today it means

adj Outside a terminus

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

Etymograph / extraterminal