finitimus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

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Pronunciation

Adjective

fīnitimus (feminine fīnitima, neuter fīnitimum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (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
  2. (followed by a dative or used alone) Concerning or originating from neighbouring people.
  3. 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)

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

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
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