finitus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of fīniō (“finish; limit; appoint”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fiːˈniː.tus/, [fiːˈniːt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fiˈni.tus/, [fiˈniːt̪us]
Participle
fīnītus (feminine fīnīta, neuter fīnītum, adverb fīnīte); first/second-declension participle
- Finished, terminated, having been finished or terminated.
- Appointed, having been appointed; determinate, particular.
- Limited, bounded, having been limited or bounded; finite.
- (figuratively) Restrained, having been restrained.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | fīnītus | fīnīta | fīnītum | fīnītī | fīnītae | fīnīta | |
| Genitive | fīnītī | fīnītae | fīnītī | fīnītōrum | fīnītārum | fīnītōrum | |
| Dative | fīnītō | fīnītō | fīnītīs | ||||
| Accusative | fīnītum | fīnītam | fīnītum | fīnītōs | fīnītās | fīnīta | |
| Ablative | fīnītō | fīnītā | fīnītō | fīnītīs | |||
| Vocative | fīnīte | fīnīta | fīnītum | fīnītī | fīnītae | fīnīta | |
Descendants
- → Catalan: finit (learned)
- Dalmatian: fenait
- Galician: finda
- → Middle English: finit, fynyte
- English: finite
- Portuguese: findo, finto, finta, → finito (learned)
- → Spanish: finito (learned)
References
- “finitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “finitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- finitus 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)
- finitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette