terminate Copy link Outline I. Trans.II. Intrans.1. cădo, cĕcĭdi, cāsum, 32. excĭdo, cĭdi, 33. innītor, nixus or nīsus, 3 • terminate: I. Trans.: termĭno, 1 (to set bounds to): to t. a sentence, t. sententiam, Cic. Or. 59, 199: Dig.: usu. expr. by fīnio, 4: v. end, close. Phr.: to t. a friendship abruptly: amicitiam opprimere, Cic. Am. 21, 78. II. Intrans.: usu. expr. by a pass. verb, or a phr.: my command for the year having t.d, imperio annuo terminato, Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 4: sentences t. with verbs, sententiae verbis finiuntur, id. de Or. 3, 49, 191: nor did the matter t. the next day, nec postero die res finem invenit, Liv. 26, 17: v. end, cease. In speaking of words or sentences the foll. rhet. t. t. are used: 1. cădo, cĕcĭdi, cāsum, 3: words t. better in longer syllables, verba melius in syllabas longiores cadunt, Cic. Or. 57, 194: a speech t.ing suitably, apte cadens oratio, Quint. 9, 4, 32: to t. in the same inflexions, similiter c. Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206 (whereas similiter desinere is merely to t. in the same letters). 2. excĭdo, cĭdi, 3: to t. in short syllables, in breves e., Quint. 9, 4, 106. 3. innītor, nixus or nīsus, 3: our syllables t. harshly in B or D, syllabae nostrae in B literam et D innituntur aspere, Quint. 12, 10, 32.