Terminaiilor

Terminaiilor is a term used in linguistics to denote the set of terminal morphemes that encode grammatical information at the end of words. In inflectional languages, these endings, collectively referred to as terminaiilor, signal features such as case, number, gender, tense, aspect, mood, or voice, and they form part of a word's paradigm.

The term is derived from the Romanian noun terminație, meaning termination or ending. In Romanian linguistic practice, the phenomenon features prominently in the study of morphology and inflection. Terminaiilor are analyzed as bound morphemes that attach to a word stem, and they interact with the inflectional system of a language to produce the full set of grammatical forms.

In analysis, linguists categorize terminaiilor by word class and by the grammatical categories they mark. For nouns, typical terminaiilor mark number and case; for adjectives, they reflect number and gender; for verbs, they indicate person, number, tense, mood, aspect, or voice. The study of terminaiilor supports the reconstruction of inflectional paradigms and the description of cross-linguistic similarities and differences in morphology.

In dictionaries and language-learning materials, terminaiilor are often described as suffixes or endings that attach to stems to convey grammatical meaning. They are contrasted with free morphemes such as stems or roots.

See also: Morphology, Inflection, Suffix, Romanian language.