coterminous
/kəˈtɝ.mɪ.nəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.99 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "New York's borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are coterminous."
- "To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "coterminous proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary."
- "It has been the close vicinity of slave-owners to each other, the fact that their lands have been coterminous, that theirs was especially a cotton district, which has tempted them to secession."
- "These eighty-two parishes were roughly coterminous with the existing seigneuries, but not always so."
- "The village of Kiryas Joel, coterminous with the town of Palm Tree, is a well-known Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community."
- "But it is purely fantastic unless we bear in mind that the governing class has been continually compelled to enlarge itself, and that its tendency is reluctantly to go on doing so until in the end it will be coterminous with the "governed class.""
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *ter-? Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ Proto-Italic *termn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *term(e)nos Latin terminus Latin conterminusder. English coterminous From Latin conterminus, from con- (“with”) + terminus (“border, end”), equivalent to co- + terminous. The spelling with co- instead of con- is probably influenced by the related prefix co-.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: conterminus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kəˈtɝ.mɪ.nəs/
- British English: /kəˈtəː.mɪ.nəs/