τέρμα

From Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥, the same source of Latin terminus (“boundary, limit, end”).

τέρμᾰ • (térma) n (genitive τέρμᾰτος); third declension

1. end, boundary
2. goal round which horses and chariots had to turn at races
3. mark set to show how far a quoit was thrown
4. (in general) end, limit, bound
5. culmination, highest point, goal
6. highest power, supremacy

• Greek: τέρμα (térma)

• “τέρμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τέρμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τέρμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τέρμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τέρμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

From Ancient Greek τέρμᾰ (térma), from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥. Cognate with Latin terminus (“boundary, limit, end”).

τέρμα • (térma) n (plural τέρματα)

1. conclusion, end, goal
2. (athletics, etc) finishing line
3. (soccer) goal (the physical entity and what is scored)

• (aim, end): στόχος m (stóchos)
• (soccer): γκολ n (gkol)

• τερματοφύλακας m (termatofýlakas, “goalkeeper”)

• ποδόσφαιρο n (podósfairo, “soccer, football”)

•   Ποδόσφαιρο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el