finitimus

Latin

Derived from fīnis (“boundary; limit”). Compare lēgitimus, maritimus.

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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)

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	fīnitimus	fīnitima	fīnitimum	fīnitimī	fīnitimae	fīnitima
genitive	fīnitimī	fīnitimae	fīnitimī	fīnitimōrum	fīnitimārum	fīnitimōrum
dative	fīnitimō	fīnitimae	fīnitimō	fīnitimīs
accusative	fīnitimum	fīnitimam	fīnitimum	fīnitimōs	fīnitimās	fīnitima
ablative	fīnitimō	fīnitimā	fīnitimō	fīnitimīs
vocative	fīnitime	fīnitima	fīnitimum	fīnitimī	fīnitimae	fīnitima

“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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: finitimum esse terrae