finito

English

Etymology

From Italian finito (“finished”), from Latin fīnītus. Doublet of finite.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɪnˈiː.təʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

finito (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Finished; over with; done.
   • 1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere):

     No more kink. Nothing. Finito. Got it?

   • 2009 January 21, Duwayne Brooks, “A premature obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     […] - it's dead, finito, past tense.

Anagrams

• Fotini

Esperanto

Noun

finito (accusative singular finiton, plural finitoj, accusative plural finitojn)

1. singular past nominal passive participle of fini

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiˈnito/

Verb

finito

1. singular nominal past passive participle of finar

Italian

Etymology

Derived from Latin fīnītus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiˈni.to/
• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: fi‧nì‧to

Adjective

finito (feminine finita, masculine plural finiti, feminine plural finite)

1. finished
2. finite

   Antonym: infinito

Derived terms

• farla finita
• finitamente

Noun

finito m (plural finiti)

1. (philosophy) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Participle

finito (feminine finita, masculine plural finiti, feminine plural finite)

1. past participle of finire

Further reading

• finito in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• finito in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• finito in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• finito in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• finito in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• finito in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• fotini, tifino, tifoni

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fiːˈniː.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fiˈniː.to]

Verb

fīnītō

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of fīniō

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian finito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiˈɲi.tɔ/
• Rhymes: -itɔ
• Syllabification: fi‧ni‧to

Interjection

finito

1. (colloquial) end of story!, enough! (that is the definitive fact; there can be no argument)

   Synonyms: dość, szlus

Further reading

• “finito”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fīnītus (“finite; limited”), present passive participle of fīniō (“to finish; to limit”). Doublet of findo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈni.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈni.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈni.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fiˈni.tu/

• Hyphenation: fi‧ni‧to

Adjective

finito (feminine finita, masculine plural finitos, feminine plural finitas, not comparable)

1. finite; limited

   Synonyms: limitado, restrito

   Antonyms: ilimitado, infinito

2. finished; over

   Synonyms: acabado, terminado

   Antonym: inacabado

Related terms

• fim
• finidade

Further reading

• “finito”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “finito”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “finito” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “finito”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “finito”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “finito”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiˈnito/ [fiˈni.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: fi‧ni‧to

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fīnītus.

Adjective

finito (feminine finita, masculine plural finitos, feminine plural finitas)

1. finite

   Antonym: infinito

Related terms

• finitud

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Latin fīnisder.

Old Spanish fin

Spanish fin

Spanish fino

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tosder.?

Late Latin -ittus

Spanish -ito

Spanish finito

From fino + -ito.

Adjective

finito (feminine finita, masculine plural finitos, feminine plural finitas)

1. diminutive of fino
   • 2002, Griselda Gambaro, Teatro, →ISBN:

     En la cabeza tenía unos pelos finitos, pocos, ¡pero tan suaves!

     On his head he had some fine little hairs. Few, but so soft!

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian finito (“finished”).

Adjective

finito (feminine finita, masculine plural finitos, feminine plural finitas)

1. (colloquial) finished; over with; done

Interjection

finito

1. (colloquial) it's finished! it's over with! that's it!

Further reading

• “finito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025