finitus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of fīniō (“finish; limit; appoint”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /fiːˈniː.tus/, [fiːˈniːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fiˈni.tus/, [fiˈniːt̪us]
Participle
[edit]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
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | fīnītus | fīnīta | fīnītum | fīnītī | fīnītae | fīnīta | |
| genitive | fīnītī | fīnītae | fīnītī | fīnītōrum | fīnītārum | fīnītōrum | |
| dative | fīnītō | fīnītae | fīnītō | fīnītīs | |||
| accusative | fīnītum | fīnītam | fīnītum | fīnītōs | fīnītās | fīnīta | |
| ablative | fīnītō | fīnītā | fīnītō | fīnītīs | |||
| vocative | fīnīte | fīnīta | fīnītum | fīnītī | fīnītae | fīnīta | |
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: finit (learned)
- Dalmatian: fenait
- Friulian: finît
- Galician: finda
- Italian: finito
- → Middle English: finit, fynyte
- English: finite
- Piedmontese: finì
- Portuguese: findo, finto, finta, → finito (learned)
- → Spanish: finito (learned)
References
[edit]- “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.