English
headterm
Analogous to headword, from head + term.
Proto-Indo-European *kap- ‘head’
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Proto-Germanic *haubudą ‘head’
Proto-West Germanic *haubud
Old English hēafod ‘head’
Middle English heed ‘head’
English head
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
Today it means
noun (terminology), (terminography) A term used as the title of a section, particularly in a terminological dictionary.
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