finis

See also: finiš

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin fīnis ("end; limit")

Noun

finis (plural finises)

1. An end (of a book etc.)
   • 1836, — Frederick Marryat, Mr Midshipman Easy

     He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 16

     Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward...

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Esperanto

Verb

finis

1. past of fini

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.ni/
• Homophones: fini, finie, finies, finit, finît

Adjective

finis

1. masculine plural form of fini

Verb

finis

1. first-person singular present indicative of finir
2. second-person singular present indicative of finir
3. first-person singular past historic of finir
4. second-person singular past historic of finir
5. second-person singular imperative of finir
6. masculine plural past participle of finir

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Ido

Verb

finis

1. past of finar

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Latin

Etymology

Disputed.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.nis/

Noun

fīnis m, f (genitive fīnis); third declension

1. end, limit
2. boundary, border
3. purpose
4. death

Inflection

Third declension i-stem, alternative ablative singular in -ī.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	fīnis	fīnēs
genitive	fīnis	fīnium
dative	fīnī	fīnibus
accusative	fīnem	fīnīs fīnēs
ablative	fīnī fīne	fīnibus
vocative	fīnis	fīnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: fi
• Dalmatian: fain
• English: finish
• French: fin
• Friulian: fin
• Italian: fine

• Portuguese: fim
• Romansch: fin
• Sardinian: fíne
• Spanish: fin

Verb

fīnīs

1. second-person singular active indicative present form of fīniō

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Pijin

Etymology

English finish

Particle

finis

1. Tense marker for the past perfect tense