finitus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of fīniō (“finish; limit; appoint”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fiːˈniː.tus/, [fiːˈniːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fiˈni.tus/, [fiˈniːt̪us]

Participle

fīnītus (feminine fīnīta, neuter fīnītum, adverb fīnīte); first/second-declension participle

1. finished, terminated, having been finished or terminated.
2. appointed, having been appointed; determinate, particular.
3. limited, bounded, having been limited or bounded; finite.
4. (figuratively) restrained, having been restrained.

Declension

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

• → 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

• “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.