final

From Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.nəl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnəl

final (plural finals)

1. (Canada, US) A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
2. (sports) The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
3. A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place/prize, 2nd place/prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.).
4. (phonology) The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
5. (music) The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.

final (comparative more final, superlative most final)

1. Last; ultimate.

   final solution;   the final day of a school term

   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes

     Yet despair not of his final pardon.

2. Conclusive; decisive.

   a final judgment;   the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue

3. Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
4. (grammar) Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
5. (linguistics) Word-final, occurring at the end of a word.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:

     Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

• (last, ultimate): dernier (dated), endly, terminal

• initial
• early
• first

• final in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• final in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• alfin, flain

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /fiˈnal/

final (masculine and feminine plural finals)

1. final

• darrer, últim

• finalment

• finalitat

final m (plural finals)

1. end (last point or moment of something)
2. finale (chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works)

• (end): fi

• finalisme
• finalitzar

final f (plural finals)

1. (sports, competitions) final, final round

• finalista

• “final” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Italian finale, from Latin fīnālis, from fīnis (“end”).

final

1. a final

final

1. final

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

From Latin fīnālis.

• IPA^(key): /fi.nal/

final (feminine singular finale, masculine plural finaux, feminine plural finales)

1. final (last)
2. (linguistics, grammar) expressing purpose

• finale
• finalement
• finaliser
• finaliste
• finalité

• “final” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /fiˈnaːl/
• Rhymes: -aːl

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final (not comparable)

1. final

final (invariant)

1. Apocopic form of finale

final m

1. Apocopic form of finale

final m (feminine singular finala, masculine plural finai, feminine plural finales)

1. final

final m (oblique and nominative feminine singular finale)

1. final, definitive, last

• English: final
• French: final

From Late Latin fīnālis, from fīnis.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fi.ˈnaɫ/
• Hyphenation: fi‧nal

final m or f (plural finais, comparable)

1. final, ultimate, last

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:final.

• derradeiro
• último

final m (plural finais)

1. an end

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:final.

• fim
• término

final f (plural finais)

1. (sports) final

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• fim
• finalista
• finalizar
• finalmente

final m or n (feminine singular finală, masculine plural finali, feminine and neuter plural finale)

1. final

• finaliza

final m (Cyrillic spelling финал)

1. (linguistics) final (last letter of word)
2. (sports) final

• IPA^(key): /fiˈnal/
• Hyphenation: fi‧nal

final (plural finales) (superlative finalísimo)

1. final

final m (plural finales)

1. an end
2. (sports) final

• fin
• término

• fin
• finalista
• finalizar
• finalmente

final c

1. (sports) a final

• åttondelsfinal
• kval
• kvartsfinal
• semifinal
• turnering

Borrowed from French final.

final (definite accusative finali, plural finaller)

1. the end
2. (education) the final exam
3. (music) finale
4. (sports) in tournaments: the last contest