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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of fīniō (“finish; limit; appoint”).
Pronunciation
Participle
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
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
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.