EuroLex/E/Terminal

terminal

• 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

between a user and a computer'

(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.)

Language	Form	Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence)	Current Meaning and Status	Earlier Meanings and Statusses	Source
Catalan	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Croatian	terminal	end20c	3, 5, status: restricted use: technical	dito	...
Czech	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Danish	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Dutch	terminal [= English]	1960s	the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (technical)	dito	...
English	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Estonian	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Finnish	terminaali	mid20c	2a, 3, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English	dito	...
French	terminal [terminal]	1950s	3, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English / (nearly) identical to indigenous form in receptor language, form of semantic loan; 1980s: 5, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English / (nearly) identical to indigenous form in receptor language, form of semantic loan;	dito	...
Frisian	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
German	Terminal [= English]	1970s	2a, status: restricted use: technical; 3, restricted use: colloquial; 1980s: 5, status: restricted use: technical;	dito	...
Hungarian	terminál [termina:l]	20c	2, 3, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; 1980s: 2a, 5, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English > not (or no longer) recognized as English;	dito	...
Irish	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Italian	terminal [tεrminal]	1960s	the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English	dito	...
Latvian	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Lithuanian	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Maltese	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Norwegian	terminal [tærmina:l]	mid20c, 1970s	2a, 5, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English (technical)	dito	...
Polish	terminal [terminal]	end20c	2b, 3, status: restricted use: colloquial; 5, status: restricted use: technical;	'...'	...
Portuguese	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Rumantsch	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Slovak	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Slovenian	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Spanish	terminal [terminal]	mid20c	2b, 3, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; end20c: 5, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English / (nearly) identical to indigenous form in receptor language, form of semantic loan;	dito	...
Swedish	...	...	'...'	'...'	...

• 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;,