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Latin
Etymology
Derived from fīnis (“boundary; limit”). Compare lēgitimus, maritimus.
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Pronunciation
Adjective
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)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
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