finitio

Latin

Etymology

From fīniō (“finish; limit; appoint”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fiːˈniː.ti.oː/, [fiːˈniːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fiˈnit.t͡si.o/, [fiˈnit̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

fīnītiō f (genitive fīnītiōnis); third declension

1. A limiting, limit, boundary, frontier; rule, law; restriction; end, ending, conclusion.
2. A determining, assigning; definition, explanation.
3. A division, part.
4. Completeness; end of life; death.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fīnītiō	fīnītiōnēs
genitive	fīnītiōnis	fīnītiōnum
dative	fīnītiōnī	fīnītiōnibus
accusative	fīnītiōnem	fīnītiōnēs
ablative	fīnītiōne	fīnītiōnibus
vocative	fīnītiō	fīnītiōnēs

Derived terms

• perfīnītiō (Mediaeval Latin)

Related terms

• fīnālis
• fīniēns
• fīniō
• fīnis

• fīnitimus
• fīnītīvus
• fīnītor
• fīnītus

Descendants

• English: -finition
• French: finition, -finition
• Italian: finizione, -finizione
• Portuguese: -finição
• Spanish: -finición

References

• “finitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• finitio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• finitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.