finitimus
Latin
Alternative forms
- fīnitumus
Etymology
From fīnis (“end; boundary, limit”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fiːˈni.ti.mus/, [fiːˈnɪt̪ɪmʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fiˈni.ti.mus/, [fiˈniːt̪imus]
Adjective
fīnitimus (feminine fīnitima, neuter fīnitimum); first/second-declension adjective
- (followed by a dative or used alone) Bordering upon, adjoining, adjacent, neighbouring or neighboring; nearly; end; boundary related, like, closely linked.
- Synonyms: vīcīnus, propinquus, contiguus, proximus
- Antonyms: remōtus, longinquus
- (followed by a dative or used alone) Concerning or originating from neighbouring people.
- neighbors
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.29-30:
- scīlicet arma magis quam sīdera, Rōmule, nōrās,
cūraque fīnitimōs vincere maior erat.- In good truth, Romulus, thou wast better acquainted with arms than with the stars, and thy greater care was to conquer thy neighbours.
(Henry T. Riley, trans.: 1851 CE)
- In good truth, Romulus, thou wast better acquainted with arms than with the stars, and thy greater care was to conquer thy neighbours.
- scīlicet arma magis quam sīdera, Rōmule, nōrās,
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | fīnitimus | fīnitima | fīnitimum | fīnitimī | fīnitimae | fīnitima | |
| Genitive | fīnitimī | fīnitimae | fīnitimī | fīnitimōrum | fīnitimārum | fīnitimōrum | |
| Dative | fīnitimō | fīnitimō | fīnitimīs | ||||
| Accusative | fīnitimum | fīnitimam | fīnitimum | fīnitimōs | fīnitimās | fīnitima | |
| Ablative | fīnitimō | fīnitimā | fīnitimō | fīnitimīs | |||
| Vocative | fīnitime | fīnitima | fīnitimum | fīnitimī | fīnitimae | fīnitima | |
Related terms
- fīnālis
- fīniēns
- fīniō
- fīnis
- fīnītiō
- fīnītīvus
- fīnītor
- fīnītus
Descendants
- Italian: finitimo
- Portuguese: finítimo
- Spanish: finítimo
References
- “finitimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “finitimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- finitimus 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)
- finitimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: finitimum esse terrae
- to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: finitimum esse terrae