TERMINATE Copy link • TERMINATETransitively, terminare aliquid (to put a limit to anything with regard to place): concludere (e.g., a letter): finire (to end): finem facere alicujus or alicui rei: finem alicui rei imponere, constituere (to put an end to). To terminate his speech, finem dicendi facere: perorare: ad finem or ad exitum adducere aliquid (to bring anything to a conclusion = to accomplish it): conficere: transigere aliquid (to settle): componere aliquid (to terminate amicably): finem or modum imponere alicui rei; finem statuere or constituere alicui rei (to put an end to anything, with regard to duration): to terminate a war, pacem facere (not concludere): to terminate a business, expedire negotium (to settle it): profligare negotium (by a violent exertion): to terminate a dispute, etc., controversiam componere or dirimere (dirimere, also of terminating anything by sudden intervention; nox proelium diremit). [Vid: END.] Intransitively, finem habere or capere: desinere (to cease): finem or exitum habere (of time or an event): terminari (of space): cadere or excidere in (to end in such a letter or syllable; of words): to terminate in a long syllable, longa syllaba terminari; cadere or excidere in longam syllabam: the matter is not yet terminated, res nondum finem invenit: to terminate badly, foede finire. Vid :, also, END, CEASE.